1. UK and us constitution compared
In the United States the written constitution does play this role. ... Second, while in Britain popular sovereignty' is viewed as residing in Parliament, Americans do not consider any body as sovereign' but the law and the constitution. Political culture in the United States is defined as getting laws passed. ... Britain's established constitutional doctrine has three defining characteristics: (1) the Westminster' model which equips the British State with a formal power structure to link up institutions and processes and gives coherence to the state system as a whole; (...
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