The British political authorities have never in modern times faced a crisis that forced them to think the constitution through to first principles and to set these down, therefore the British constitution was never invented or designed but just grew, so that political facts became constitutional rules. ... In formal terms parliamentary authority in Britain is unlimited, as parliament can make or unmake law on any subject whatsoever, as William Blackstone, the eighteenth century jurist declared "Parliament can do everything that is not naturally impossible" (Coxall & Robins 1998, 214) as no ...

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