Constitutional amendment in the United Kingdom

• Autores: Robert Blackburn
• Localización: Engineering Constitutional Change: A comparative perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA / Xenophon Contiades (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52976-1, págs. 358-388
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The pace of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom has accelerated in recent years. Yet, without a documentary constitution providing a special amendment procedure, legal changes to even the most basic aspects of the political and constitutional system can be made through the same process as an ordinary Act of Parliament. Conventions remain of special importance as an informal means of updating the constitution, but as a species of regulation they are in a state of decline, increasingly being superseded by ad hoc codes of practice. What has emerged is a constitution that is now overly fl exible, and a number of improvements are now necessary in the process of reform