... common law; conventions are actually established by the institutions of government themselves. Conventions are not descriptive but are prescriptive yet laws are descriptive as they are found in a precise textual form. The law originates from common law and statute, whereby most of the law is case made by judges. The law is somewhat based upon the Ten Commandments and each case is decided on the previous cases. Constitutional conventions describe and explain how our constitution works and grows; therefore replacing what would be a written constitution despite not being in any legal form. The British constitution is similar to the structure of conventions in the fact it really has no structure. The constitution and convention are unwritten hence flexible. Convention is imprecise and is not formulated in terms. Conventions are based on one of two things, usage or agreement and this enables one to tell when and how they were formulated. Disparate ...

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