The constitution if this country is primarily
Answers
Answer:
The Constitution of the United Kingdom is the system of rules that decides the political governance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Unlike most countries, the UK constitution is not codified into a single document. However, the UK Supreme Court recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy, and upholding international law.[2]
Parliament is central to the UK's democratic constitution. In the Palace of Westminster the House of Commons represents the public in 650 UK constituencies, and chooses the Prime Minister at will. The House of Lords remains unelected but can be overruled.[1]
The UK Supreme Court also recognises that some Acts of Parliament have special constitutional status.[3] These include Magna Carta, which in 1215 required the King to call a "common counsel" (now called Parliament) to represent people, to hold courts in a fixed place, to guarantee fair trials, to guarantee free movement of people, to free the church from the state, and to guarantee rights of "common" people to use the land.[4] After the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Claim of Right Act 1689 cemented Parliament's supremacy over the monarch, the church and the courts, and said that the "election of members of Parliament ought to be free".