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It absolutely doesn't. It's not written down because it doesn't exist.

All that article is doing is listing some Acts that contain portions that Brits tend to take more seriously than, say, the Dangerous Dogs Act.

But here's the important bit. Legally, it's no harder to repeal the Bill of Rights that it is to repeal the mangy mutts act.

For example, Parliamentary sovereignty is considered sacrosanct in our constitution. Except we have fairly regularly given it away in Acts and are, presumably, going to get some back in another one because of Brexit.

And Brexit is going to happen because we, randomly, had a referendum about it. In most countries, fundamentally restructuring almost all our treaty obligations of the last 40 years would have a higher threshold than muzzling Rottweilers. Not so in Blighty.

Now, I happen to think that that's not necessarily a bad thing (OK, I think Brexit was scandalous). But we clearly don't have a constitution in any reasonable sense.




I can see why you'd say that, but in terms of usage you'll give yourself at odds with the uk parliament and legal system. [0]

In fact the uk constitution predates most of the neat written ones.

[0] www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/whatis/uk-constitution




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