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With the backdrop presented above, this essay will consider the merits and inadequacies of implementation of a written constitution in the UK presently.
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The UK has a unique legal system. Its' legal system is based on common law and supplemented by doctrines such as equity. Currently the UK constitution is unwritten in the sense that they rely on constitutional conventions and there does not exist a complete document that constitutes powers to a legal entity and that regulates relationships between the 'state' and its citizens. With the backdrop presented above, this essay will consider the merits and inadequacies of implementation of a written constitution in the UK presently. A famed constitution principal of the UK's unwritten constitution is parliamentary supremacy. Legal theorist Albert Dicey explained this concept as parliament's 'right to make or unmake any law whatsoever.' This concept further entails parliament as a legislative body being supreme to all other governmental institutions. In the UK parliamentary supremacy exists due to the lack of a written constitution. Proponents of parliamentary supremacy affirm parliament's unlimited legal...
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