Is it time for the UK to have a written Constitution?

[andyofborg]

Oh naturally it's very unlikely to happen but as a thought experiment why would it not work? This came from an old school civics class where it was invited to propose how the UK could become a republic and it was rather interesting watching 800 years of legal stuimbling blocks pop up their ugly heads...

 

i dont know if it is that unlikely.

 

the average person in the street probably wont care and never will, but some people do an a proper, reasonably well thought out constitution leading to some sort of federal uk might just keep the union together.

 

we wouldn't even need to become a republic, english monarchs have recognised the limitations placed on their ability to exercise absolute power for at least the last 600 years and those who tried to overstep the boundaries encountered some problems.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

english monarchs have recognised the limitations placed on their ability to exercise absolute power for at least the last 600 years and those who tried to overstep the boundaries encountered some problems.

And British monarchs.

That there is a monarch over the political system is itself a partial limit on parliamentary unlawfulness. No giving of Royal Assent = not a law (so far as concerns statutes, at least).