British Quote by Linda Colley

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of…

— Linda Colley

In the absence of a written constitution, we still rely far too heavily in the U.K. on unwritten and unenforceable 'constitutional conventions.'

— Keir Starmer

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there…

— Bernard Bailyn

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment…

— Salman Rushdie

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

— Heather Brooke

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right…

— A. V. Dicey

“Indeed, they embraced a tradition that was notorious for its incompatibility with American law and liberty. The connection between absolute and administrative power was…

— Philip Hamburger

The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of…

— John Adams

Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that…

— Eustace Mullins

“Its spirit was animated by the same love of representative government and respect for the rule of law that had produced England’s unwritten constitution…

— Paul Johnson