Constitution of the United Kingdom

The constitution of the United Kingdom is a whole of not codified constitutional requirements based on the law, jurisprudence, the constitutional uses, etc the first established rules go back to the Moyen-âge and the United Kingdom is aujourdhui the only Western State with being remained faithful to a usual Constitution. Among these usual rules, one can quote the right of Dissolution of the House of Commons by the Prime Minister or the resignation of the whole of the Cabinet when its policy is called into question by the Rooms, which do not appear in any text.

There exist four fundamental texts which belong to the constitution:

the Magna Carta or Large Charter in 1215 (where the king gives up some being able with the profit of the barons and of the communes and declares itself dependant by the law, in particular certain legal procedures, like the prohibition of the arbitrary imprisonment, supplemented in 1679 by Habeas Corpus)
Bill off Rights into 1689 which founds the English constitutional monarchy by granting basic rights with the citizens and residents (not to be confused with its more known American version).
Act off Settlement or Act of establishment in 1701 (the succession with the throne organizes)
Parliament Act or Act of the Parliament in 1911, modified in 1949 (relating to the respective capacity of the 2 rooms, which limits the capacities of the House of Lords to the profit of the House of Commons).

External bonds

'' Report one the British constitution and proposed European constitution by Professor John McEldowney, University off Warwick ''
'' From Unwritten to Written: Transformation in the British Common-Law Constitution '', David Jenkins, 2003

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