The British Constitution

What is a constitution?

The OED defines a constitution as a "the system of laws and basic principles that a state, a country or an organization is governed by" (OED). So a constitution is a body of written down rules that regulate the relation of the state and its individual subject, right and responsibilities, plus the state structure (goverment, parliament, courts).

Sources

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