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From your link: The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingd
by haltingproblem 4y ago
From your link:
The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document, thus it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched;[2] the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, and upholding international law.
You cannot point me to a document that is the constitution. Words like uncodified or "unwritten arrangements" just create a semantic whack-a-mole, furthering the point that no written constitution exists.
- mrcsd 4y agoOf course I agree that there is no written constitution, I said as much above. But there _is_ a constitution. Constitutions do not have to be written, unless you think otherwise?
- brainfish 4y agoIf there's just one British constitution and everyone agrees on it, then it seems like writing it down would be pretty trivial.
- tablespoon 4y ago> If there's just one British constitution and everyone agrees on it, then it seems like writing it down would be pretty trivial. Honestly, a country can have a universally recognized and respected written constitution without "everyone agree[ing] on it." See United States of America, Constitution Of.
- illiac786 4y agoThe majority would suffice.
- johnthewise 4y agoBut those who do not agree with it do not have any other custom or tradition which they claim is actually the constitution. Original claim stands on the argument that if there was really a single constitution, it would be trivial to write it down, not that everyone needs to agree on it, which is not a viable criteria anyway to test if something is constitution or not.
- mrcsd 4y agoLeaving aside whether there is only one constitution, when has writing any governing document ever been trivial? Literally, humanity has struggled and continues to struggle to write down and effectively communicate even documents of much lesser importance, API documentation or text books for example. I'm sorry but I don't see how this point can be made seriously.
- stingraycharles 4y agoDoesn’t that make it very difficult to determine what the constitution actually is, and leave a lot of room for different versions of the same constitutions? It makes the constitution some abstract thing, rather than a very factual set of rules, which you want the constitution to be.