Does England have a Constitution similar to that of the US?

Question

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Answer 1

No.

The US is a new country that was formed 'from scratch' after the 13 colonies broke away from England only a couple of hundred years ago. As such they could write the basis for their legal system starting with a blank piece of paper.

The "Constitution" of England, on the other hand, is the whole body of Constitutional law that has grown up bit by bit over more than a thousand years. Such documents as the Magna Carta (Great Contract) contribute to the basis of the English Constitution, but much more of it comes from century after century of case law as Judges have addressed almost every issue that could arise, each ruling building on the ones that came before. This body of case law forms the "Common Law", which is the basis for US law as well.

Richard