... "unwritten" is far too general to describe the nature of the British Constitution, however, "uncodified" is a better classification. In agreement with the statement made by the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, the British Constitution has a great deal of it in written form, as mentioned above. However, since not all the sources of the British Constitution are put into a sinle or series of ordered documents, the Constitution is termed "uncodified". A codified constitution, therefore, is simply where the most important constitutional rules have been put into such a document, giving them special recognition in some way, and an uncodified constitution is where a constitution of many and various sources has no such formal recognition. However, since no state could write down all its constitutional rules (because many are conventions or social practices), some countries simply have not had an opportunity or have not felt the need to put ...

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