Question: Assume that an official draft of a new, codified Constitution of the United Kingdom is complete, except for one matter. The drafters have to decide what to do about constitutional conventions.
Explain with reasons the main course of action open to them, and indicate which course you think would be best.
Answer: This question requires discussion of the codification of constitutional conventions. Conventions are, by their very nature, not the result of a legislative or a judicial process. Constitutional conventions are rules which arise from practices over a period of time. A wide variety of names has been given to these rules: the positive morality of constitution, the unwritten maxims of the constitution, and ‘a whole system of political morality, a whole code of precepts for the guidance of public men’. It is perhaps AV Dicey from whom the most influential definition is derived.......(short extract)
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Details: - Mark: 67% | Course: Public Law | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 1310 | References: Yes | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: December 05, 2010 | Coursework ID: 626
