Essay plan - The UK should not have a codified constitution

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The UK should not have a Codified Constitution. The system works well using the current system which has been used for centuries, causing no problems.The difficulties of codifying the British constitution, some of the problems that may incur may involve who, how and what should be in the constitution. The UK’s organic constitution works far better in practice than the US codified one. Example: Acts of Parliament can make and change possibly unjust laws far faster than a codified constitution with checks and balances, particularly seen with the slavery laws in Britain and the US respectively. Uncodified constitutions are flexible as they are not entrenched like codified constitutions are. Due to the rigid and inflexible nature of codified constitutions, it is difficult for them to remain up to date and relevant. For example, the US constitution has had to be amended 27 times in order for it to remain relevant, and each amendment
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would have taken a long period of time as to change the constitution, two thirds of the electorate have to agree, and it has to go through both houses. Parliamentary sovereignty would effectively be abolished. The principle of parliamentary sovereignty states that parliament can make, abolish or amend any law it wishes. With a codified constitution, parliament would not be able to do this due to the existence of a single document that makes up the constitution. This is because a constitution would act as a form of higher law, therefore a codified constitution would undermine one of the key ...

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