Sentence examples for 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.
"In 2016, Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler proposed and published a written, codified constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Membership of the EU put us in effect under a codified constitution via treaties constraining both government and parliament.
A written or codified constitution, for them, provided an answer to many of the issues and inequalities besetting the UK at the time.
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.
Another difference is that the UK has no codified, written constitution, so the court does not have the ability to strike down a law as unconstitutional, unlike in the US, where the court has also been involved in key political decisions.
We're one of only four countries in the world which has never bothered to get round to codifying our constitution - the others are Saudi Arabia, Israel, and, because you need an exception to prove the point, New Zealand.
California should make it more difficult to place financial initiatives on the ballot (Ohio had this codified into its constitution).
