... the world, the nation's constitution can be found in a single document. The exceptions are Israel, to a certain degree New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. "As every beginner knows, the United Kingdom has no 'constitution' in the narrower sense of the term. There is no document...called the British constitution. But since Britain has a regular system of government, with a complex of rules defining the composition, functions and interrelationship of the institutions of government, and delineating the rights and duties of the governed, Britain does have a constitution and a body of constitutional law, if these terms are used in a broader sense."2 Admittedly, the constitution is a little hard to track down, to find its rules one must look in a number of places. The most important source of constitutional law is to be found in written documents or statutes such as the Magna Carta 1215, the Bill ...

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