The United Kingdom is unusual in having no constitution set out in a single document. But the history of the last hundred years of near universal suffrage...
In mediaeval times, and under the Tudors, the Chancellor was the King’s senior minister and right-hand man. As such he acted as his deputy in all...
Tomorrow, a group of Conservative rebel Members of Parliament led by Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney-General, will unveil their plan to suspend Article 50 and derail...
According to Dicey, constitutional conventions are ‘customs, practices, maxims of precepts’ and refers to them as mere “constitutional morality”. Dicey separates legal rules from conventions as...
After a year of contentious debate both within government and among international organisations, the Internal Security Law in Mexico has finally been repealed by the Supreme...
In the common-law system which governs the United Kingdom, there are two primary sources of law. The first are Acts of Parliament, approved by both the...
The Human Rights Act 1998 has extended the legal protection afforded to human rights and has therefore been a key driver of the shift from a...
A constitution is a document or group of documents which outlines the fundamental principles by which a state is acknowledged to be governed. In essence, it...
The royal prerogative covers those powers left over from when the monarch was directly involved in government – powers that now include making treaties, declaring war,...