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Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow... by gweinberg on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:10PM (#35348687)
Yes it does. It doesn't have a Constitution, but that's not the same thing as not having a constitution.
Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow... by robopsychology on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:17PM (#35348771)
Okay to put it another way the constitution is uncodified and weak - parliament can change constitutional laws at a whim due to no separation of powers and no-one could sit down and write it out anyway. So it's a pretty weird constitution if you can call it that, and many legal scholars argue it isn't one.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688

Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow... by hgsgm on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:57PM (#35351125)
$51 is an expensive citation.
Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow... by somenameforme on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:09AM (#35352894)
Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow... by int_19h on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:05PM (#35365163)
UK operates on the notion of parliamentary supremacy, which makes any constitution, formal or informal, largely meaningless, since the Parliament can always override anything in it with simple majority vote:

"It is often said that it would be unconstitutional for the United Kingdom Parliament to do certain things, meaning that the moral, political and other reasons against doing them are so strong that most people would regard it as highly improper if Parliament did these things. But that does not mean that it is beyond the power of Parliament to do such things. If Parliament chose to do any of them, the courts would not hold the Act of Parliament invalid."