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Question 1

What are the fundamental foundations of the UK’s unwritten constitution?

Answer 1

Doctrines such as parliamentary supremacy, the rule of law and the separation of powers

Question 2

Why does the fact it is not written make the constitution flexible

Answer 2

Constitutional rules do not require a special procedure to alter them as they do elsewhere. Many important constitutional rules are not rules of law, and do the British government depends less on legal rules and safeguards than upon political and democratic principles