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What is a constitution?
The OED defines a constitution as a "the system of laws and basic principles that a state, a country or an organization is governed by" (OED). So a constitution is a body of written down rules that regulate the relation of the state and its individual subject, right and responsibilities, plus the state structure (goverment, parliament, courts).
Sources
[1]Turpin, Colin and Adam Tompkins. British government and the Constitution. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 5-9, 33-42.
[2]“What Is The British Constitution?” Re-Constitution. 6. July. 2010 <http://www.re-constitution.org.uk/discover-the-facts/what-is-the-british-constitution/>[1]
[3]Straw, Jack. “Modernising the Magna Carta.” 2008. Ministry of Justice. 6.July 2010 <http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/sp130208.htm>[2]
[5]Straw, Jack. “Constitutional change and the future of parliamentary democracy.” 2009. Ministry of Justice. 6.July 2010 <http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/speech241109a.htm>[3]
[6]Bagehot. Walter. Die Englische Verfassung. Ed./Trans. Klaus Streifhau. Berlin: Luchterhand. 1971: 1-38.
[7]Faith, Thompson. Magna Carta. London: Oxford University Press, 1950: V, 3-10, 33,-69.
[8]“Judiciary.” Re-Constitution. 6. July. 2010 <http://www.re-constitution.org.uk/discover-the-facts/judiciary#facts_5>[4]