Sentence examples for a codified constitution from inspiring English sources

Britain, after all, remains one of just three democracies, together with New Zealand and Israel, without a codified constitution.

But because the UK does not have a codified constitution, there is room for argument about what those requirements are.

But exactly what they are, in the absence of a codified constitution, must be open to doubt.

Membership of the EU put us in effect under a codified constitution via treaties constraining both government and parliament.

After considering their conversations and formal submissions, this second book - with its revised proposal for a codified constitution - is the product of a year in development.

Using the analogy of a tennis club, he argues that the absence of a codified constitution alienates citizens from the state: "If you have to ask" for clarification of unwritten, often obscure rules, then "you don't really belong".

"In 2016, Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler proposed and published a written, codified constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand.

But "even if something is legal in the U.K., it can be unconstitutional in India," Mr. Prakash argued, because constitutional protection for speech in India is better than in Britain, which does not have a single, codified constitution.

A written or codified constitution, for them, provided an answer to many of the issues and inequalities besetting the UK at the time.

Hammurabi's world famous Code of Law which dates back to 1772 BC is regarded as one of the world's first codified constitution with the remarkable feature of laws taking primacy over the authority of the ruler.

I confess that I did not wish to stifle their youthful idealism, yet felt duty bound to spend time running through the inadequacies of nation-states that did possess codified constitutions.