Kerim Aydin wrote: >Does that put England Right Out? No. The constitution of the UK is entirely amendable. In fact, it can all be amended by ordinary statute law requiring only a simple majority in each chamber of Parliament: the UK has no law that is specially difficult to amend.
A more interesting case, which came up in my earlier era of playerhood when we first considered recognising Canada as a nomic, is the German constitution. It has rules providing for amendment to the constitution, but an explicit prohibition on amending certain articles of it. The question was raised of whether it was disqualified from being a nomic by virtue of those protected articles being unamendable. However, it emerged that the protecting clause did not prohibit amendment of itself, so in the end the constitution on its face does not make any clause entirely unamendable. > the country's constitution is an amalgam of codified acts and >uncodified traditions and conventions." The `uncodified' parts of common law, including the constitutions of the UK and Canada, have nevertheless been written about extensively. There are certain ancient books about common law that are actually accepted by the courts as authoritative, er, codification of the uncodified law. -zefram
