Cabinet Manual (United Kingdom)
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The Cabinet Manual is a government document in the
The writing of the manual was originally initiated by Gordon Brown as part of his broader plan to establish a written constitution for the UK.[1] However, in 2011 the House of Lords Constitution Committee stated that the document was "not the first step to a written constitution" as it only describes the existing rules and does not "set existing practice in stone".[2] The manual does not need to be formally approved by Parliament and can be modified at any time by the Cabinet Secretary.[3]
History
The United Kingdom has no single constitutional document; instead, much of the British constitution is embodied in documents, within statutes, court judgments, works of authority and treaties, which is sometimes described as an uncodified or "unwritten" constitution.[4] The UK constitution also has several unwritten sources in the form of constitutional conventions.
In February 2010 during a speech to the
See also
External links
- "Cabinet Manual" (PDF). gov.uk (pdf). Cabinet Office. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- "Cabinet Manual". gov.uk. Cabinet Office. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
References
- ^ a b "A new Magna Carta?". parliament.uk. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ^ "Cabinet manual not 'first step' to written constitution". BBC News. 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ^ "The Cabinet Manual is constitutionally problematic because it expresses only the Executive's views". 19 February 2014.
- ^ H Barnett, Constitutional and Administrative Law (5th edn Cavendish 2005) 9, "A written constitution is one contained within a single document or a [finite] series of documents, with or without amendments"
- ^ "The Cabinet Manual". parliament.uk. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 2015-04-27.