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  • The UK constitution is written. It’s just not in one document. In this case I think it comes from the civil war when the absolute powers of the crown were given to parliament.

    Which is rather the point, there comes another act of parliament and more constitution is formed. What came before can’t stop that process. Even with a codified Constitution like the US one, there’s always a process of amendments which can change the previous versions. The fact that the US hasn’t had an amendment in a very long time is just a lack of political will.

    So I think my question is a reasonable one. The founding fathers felt that the constitution should always be able to be changed, so wouldn’t state legislation also always be able to be modified by a future legislature?