unwritten constitution

If we still had a completely unwritten constitution, perhaps they would.

The problem with an unwritten constitution is that it is a gentlemen's agreement.

Every village had an unwritten constitution made up of age-old conventions and traditions.

This is essentially a defense to the United Kingdom's unwritten constitution.

Under Britain's unwritten constitution, the sovereign does not comment on matters of political controversy.

Obedience to the king is the unwritten constitution of the land; as the clerics say, it's God's law.

The unwritten constitution and the established Church are amongst the progeny of protest.

Britain's unwritten constitution has adapted incrementally over centuries to challenges to the political system.

Jersey has an unwritten constitution arising from the Treaty of Paris (1259).

Perhaps the best definition is to say that the mos maiorum was Rome's unwritten constitution.

Hume was no theorist of an unwritten constitution.

It represented an unwritten constitution of sorts.

"In Britain, the freedom of the press is part of our unwritten constitution, but we are still a deferential society.

But the unwritten constitution says otherwise.

It served as Rome's unwritten constitution.

This was a response to a widespread belief that the concept of an unwritten constitution could mean the erosion of civil liberties.

But under Britain's unwritten constitution, the Prince of Wales has no job other than to be king-in-waiting.

Such a state can manipulate ideologically and legally the vagaries and anomalies of an unwritten constitution.

Rome's unwritten constitution hampered reform.

Its position was formed through constitutional convention, making its status as de facto capital a part of the UK's unwritten constitution.

"It's like an unwritten constitution no one would dream of violating . . . except, thank God, for foreigners who don't know any better.

For that, the government must be according to a constitution of government that is consistent with the superior unwritten constitutions of nature and society.

They blamed Peter the Great for introducing German bureaucratic government, they wanted an English style unwritten constitution.

Governments of the Bailiwicks have generally tried to avoid testing the limits of the unwritten constitution by avoiding conflict with British governments.

Mrs. Thatcher, who under Britain's unwritten constitution would have had to advise the Queen whether to accept, said, "It is a very definite yes."