Constitutional documents

What constitutional documents are, and why Ask The Beagle cites them.

Our explanation

A small number of old statutes and charters set the ground rules for how the UK is governed: how Parliament, the Crown and the courts relate to each other. They are cited when a question touches those ground rules. The documents in this corpus include:

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