Disadvantages Of A Unwritten Constitution

An “unwritten” constitution is a problem or a miracle. The constitution is “the set of laws, rules and practices that create the basic institutions of the state”. A historic constitution which in the years has a lot of changes and interventions from outsides powers, separations of three main bodies in the way that it works. We can see here that government is capable to enact laws, using the power of the Crown with the Parliament of course, which no other body can challenge, and the judiciary based in these statutes and laws can make also the precedents or else common law. Important changes happened a lot of years before and until our days we can see amendments in this system because as we said we have an “unwritten” constitution which is more flexible than others which are in codified form. But is the British constitution a political one or a legal one. As Adam Tomkins said in his book <Public Law>, “A political constitution is one in which those who exercise political power (let us say the government) are held to constitutional account through political means, and through political institutions (for example, Parliament).” In contrast, a legal constitution is “one which imagines that the principal means, and the principal institution, through which the government is held to account is the law and the court-room.”

The first remarkable changes in this constitution can someone tell that is recorded years before in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution and the next year 1689 with