Why doesn’t Britain have a written constitution?
The constitution of the United Kingdom is an area of uncodified law, consisting both of written and unwritten sources. There is no difference between ordinary statutes and law that is considered as ‘Constitutional law’. Thus, the Parliament can perform ‘Constitutional reform’ simply by passing acts of Parliament thereby changing or abolishing any unwritten or written element of Constitutional law. This is based on the concept of all sovereignty belonging to the parliament. The British constitution has evolved over many centuries. Unlike the constitutions of the United States, France and many Commonwealth countries, the British constitution has not been assembled at any time into a single, consolidated document. Instead it is made up of common law, statute law and convention. Of all the democratic countries in the world, only Israel is comparable to Britain in having no single document codifying the way its political institutions function and setting out the basic rights and duties of i
