“A written constitution is necessary for there to be constitutional law. Without such a document, it is impossible to adequately set out the powers of the State, or to protect the rights of the citizen. Critically discuss, making particular reference to the United Kingdoms constitutional arrangements.”

When answering this question one does need to comprehend what we mean by constitutional laws and how they differ from ordinary laws. In simple terms we can classify constitutional laws as the set of the most important rules that regulate the relations among the different parts of the government of a given country and also the relations between the different parts of the government and the people of the country.  These are in essence the laws that set out state power and the rights of the citizen in relation to the state. In addition one must grasp that the phrase written constitution can be more precisely assumed to mean a codified and single document constitution such as the American Constitution, because even an unwritten constitution may have many written sources of constitutional law. Bearing these in mind this essay will aim to establish whether, without that singu…(short extract)