... known as "a written constitution" or "the constitution". These documents are authoritative in the sense that they constitute "higher" law- indeed the highest law of the land. Uncodified constitutions are now found only in two liberal democracies, Israel and the UK, and a handful of non-democratic states. In the absence of a written constitution, uncodified constitutions draw upon a variety of sources (in the UK these include statute law, common law, conventions works of authority and EU law). There are many advantages of adopting a written constitution in Britain, and there are many pressure groups, political figures, and ordinary people who believe that Britain should have one. Our unwritten constitution is old fashioned, and there is not even an agreement about what it actually contains as it is made up of various conventions, statute laws, and ancient documents. Constitutions are supposed to be the fundamental social compacts by which authority and ...

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