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... as royal prerogative, statute, common law, convention and authoritative opinion. As Britain joined EU, EU laws have become another major source and all the British laws must subject to EU laws. Due to its uncodified feature, convention constitutes a great mass of constitution, playing an important role. British constitution's uncodified form has been challenged by quite a few criticisms. As it is primarily composed by convention, British constitution is deemed to be more flexible. Such as during the procedure of amendment, no restrictions or arrangements are specifically presented in any documents. As a result, amendment could be easily achieved through conventions, and it would not matter even if there were some changes in conventions. In contrary, it is argued that the US constitution has only experienced 26 amendments during the last 200 years because of the supreme laws which imposed certain limits over amendment. However, to some extend, the British ...
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