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"'The British Constitution, contrary to popular description, is not 'unwritten'- a good part of it is written- but it is uncodified.' (House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, 2002) Discuss."
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"'The British Constitution, contrary to popular description, is not 'unwritten'- a good part of it is written- but it is uncodified.' (House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, 2002) Discuss." As a broad definition, a constitution is "the system of laws, customs and conventions which defines the composition and powers of the organs of the State, and regulates the relations of the various State organs to one another and to the private citizen". However, following historical events such as the War of Independence in America, and the revolution in France, such countries took the break with their history as an opportunity to codify their constitutional arrangements. By putting the constitution into a clearly written document, this codification became classified as "written" constitutions. "Unwritten" constitutions, therefore, refer to the constitutions which have not been put into such written form, such as Britain, New Zealand and Israel. This classification does not, however,...
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