As it isn't written in a single document the British constitution derives from five major sources, these are, firstly, Statute Law, which is the main source of the part written element of the constitution, and comprises of Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation, this is the most important of the five sources and has increasingly displaced Common Law as the most extensive form of law in Britain. ... After the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 came the "launch of a grand revolutionary experiment in popular democracy" (Miroff, Seidelman & Swanst...

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