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[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The UK doesn't have a constitution yet it is the cradle of freedom. We didn't have one until 1982 when several old acts and laws were consolidated into a single document. This reference opens The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but click on the big 1 in the title to get to the meat of the issue. There are a lot of schedules noting what acts have been replaced and amended by this one..

Whether a nation needs a constitution is moot. Precedent, as in the UK, can also set the rules. A constitution is a statute, and statute in our legal systems overrides precedent.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

For some reason, I thought that the UK was a constitutional monarchy because if the Magna Carta?

--Ocram

[LexusInfernus 908]

The UK doesn't have a constitution yet it is the cradle of freedom. We didn't have one until 1982 when several old acts and laws were consolidated into a single document. This reference opens The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but click on the big 1 in the title to get to the meat of the issue. There are a lot of schedules noting what acts have been replaced and amended by this one..

Whether a nation needs a constitution is moot. Precedent, as in the UK, can also set the rules. A constitution is a statute, and statute in our legal systems overrides precedent.

Correct, but the UK's legal system is very different then for example the legal systems of mainland Europe, which are almost all constitution based.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

For some reason, I thought that the UK was a constitutional monarchy because if the Magna Carta?

--Ocram

Magna Carta is just another legal precedent. Probably one of the earliest. However, all it did was limit the power of the King to make war on the Barons.