ABSTRACT
As has been seen in Chapter 1, the United Kingdom’s constitution is classified as ‘unwritten’. However, while there is no single constituent document, many constitutional sources are of a written nature, albeit not conveniently compiled within any one document. In order to give meaning to the constitution as a whole, it is necessary to study the many fundamental documents, statutes and cases together with the non-legal conventional rules which surround and give meaning to the legal rules. In undertaking this exercise, it must be remembered that what is being sought is not a rote-learned catalogue of sources, but rather a broad appreciation of the constituent elements of the constitution.
