Two hundred and nineteen years after the US ratified their unique written Constitution with three co-equal branches of government, the Executive Branch, The Legislature and the Judiciary, good old Blighty, which has muddled along with a system of laws that theoretically depended on the whims and votes of whatever government happened to be in power, takes a major step at a rational form of government with a Judiciary that is independent of the government.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6818434.ece Excerpts: A new constitution is being created in the United Kingdom. Yet few care to notice. One reason for the lack of concern is that the British constitution is largely unwritten – or, more accurately, uncodified. Another, as Vernon Bogdanor writes in The New British Constitution, is that recent reforms have been introduced in a “piecemeal, unplanned and pragmatic way”. The third, as Professor Bogdanor rightly observes, is that the British are notoriously uninterested in their nation’s constitution. [end of excerpts] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIjWmRUceejDTIZBxDQcBZvs16MwD9BC8LIG0 Excerpts: The government says the new court corrects one of the quirks of Britain's ancient and unwritten constitution, separating the country's judicial and legislative powers after hundreds of years of muddled compromise. Brown [British Prime Minister Gordon Brown] said that, with the formation of the court, "a separation of powers once only guaranteed by convention is now cemented by statute." [end of excerpts]
