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Should the UK Constitution be codified?
The first is the impact of any differences between the procedures and principles set out in the constitutional legislation and the procedures and principles that would apply under current arrangements. The second is the impact in the real world of setting them out, by way of legislation, in a new written constitution.
Why Britain needs a written constitution
Although modern Britain has never had a codified constitution, for a long time a careful cult of its constitutional history served some comparable functions. From the early 1800s, books on this ...