one of the first challenges is to reflect on where the British constitution gets its authority.
We say these things because we wish to deepen and entrench the status of such rules. We regard them as fundamental, and we reach for the rhetoric of the constitution to signify this sense of fundamentality.
Almost all of the UK’s constitution is written down, somewhere. But it is not codified. There is no single authoritative text.
If the British constitution does not obtain its authority from a governing text, where does it obtain its authority from?
where do the principles come from, and who decides (in the context of an uncodified constitution) what “counts” as a fundamental constitutional principle and what does not?
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