Secondly then, what is the constitutional place of God in the British state?
We must, in a manner that some leading constitutional experts have failed so to do, distinguish between the English constitution, the Scottish one, and the constitution of Great Britain – or the United Kingdom as it is known in law. As Sidney Low put it in 1904, British government is based upon a system of tacit understandings. But the understandings are not always understood (in Vernon Bogdanor, Politics and the Constitution, Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1996, p. 6). What follows is therefore necessarily complex to unpack. In English constitutional law, which as we will see below is often confused with Scottish and British law, sovereignty rests in Parliament. Vernon Bogdanor (op. cit., p. 5) therefore sums up the great constitutional expert, A. V. Dicey, in eight words: What the Queen in Parliament enacts is law. In the absence of a single agreed source of written constitutional understanding, our unwritten constitution is based on convention. Bogdanor continues (p. 6): But in Britain (sic)
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