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In the politics of the United Kingdom, constitutional law is an area of uncodified law and statutes that regulates relationship between, the power of, and the privileges of the monarchy, the houses of Parliament, the Scottish courts and the English courts system which include the common law courts, the courts of chancery, the ecclesiastical courts, the admiralty courts, as well as many other courts and administrative tribunals. While it is said that United Kingdom's constitution is unwritten, it is, in fact, partly made up of many documents including such well known texts as the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Statute of Westminster 1931 and the various Acts of Union ( 1536The Act of Union 1536 combined England and Wales into a single state. It was passed during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. His father, Henry VII was Welsh-born and very conscious of it, and Henry VIII declared himself proud of his Welsh blood., 1707The Acts of Union were twin Acts of Parliament passed in 1707 (going into effect on 26 March) in the Scottish and the English Parliaments. The effect was twofold: to create a new Kingdom of Great Britain (though the name was used on occasion since 1604 to and 1800The 1800 Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a merger of England and Scotland under the Act of Union 1707) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801. Under the terms of the).However, it is not always evident how these documents interact as they encompass centuries of history. Also, much of British constitutional law relies upon the royal prerogatives, unwritten constitutional conventionAlternative meaning: Constitutional Convention A Constitutional convention is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state. In some states, notably those Commonwealth of Nations states which follow the Wes and other customFor an article on the meaning of this term in the field of law, see custom_(law). A custom is also a kind of Motorbike; see Custom (motorcycle) Custom is a common practice among people, especially depending on country, culture, time and religion. The diffs; thus the constitutional law of the United Kingdom and countries that were once part of the British EmpireThe British Empire in the early decades of the 20th century, held sway over a population of 400 500 million people (roughly a quarter of the world's population), and covered nearly 30 million square kilometres, (roughly two-fifths of the world's land area may have to be understood in the context of case lawCase law precedential law is the body of judge-made law and legal decisions that interprets prior case law, statutes and other legal authority including doctrinal writings by legal scholars such as the Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsbury's Laws of England or that throws perspective on these many elements.
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