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This 5 page paper discusses the use of conventions: what they are, their purpose, their history, etc. This paper explores why the English constitution depends upon conventions. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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upon them, creating the appearance of a conflict. And yet, the appearance of conflict is eliminated when one truly understands how conventions work within the political system and how
they actually work to support the constitution. Without conventions, there would not be the constitution and political system which Britain knows today. To understand this apparent opposition, one
must understand the basics of the parliamentary system which includes both conventions and the Constitution. Conventions and the Constitution Interestingly,
conventions are not legal entities, which therefore creates complexity and consternation given their prominence in the legal system (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). Many conventions are the result of
historical events (Governance in the UK, 2002). In fact, they actually play a very significant and important role within the UK Constitution, since they help to "create a system
which would be difficult to achieve using statues alone" (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). Conventions are basically unwritten rules and
over time they have evolved and changed (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). For example, one convention in the system is that "ministers should resign when a mistake
is made by the departments for which they are responsible" (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). However, this is no longer the reality (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). Since
government has grown so extensively, the ministers cannot possibly take responsibility for all those under them since they have no way of knowing everything, and therefore this is a prime
example of a convention which has evolved with the times (Conventions in the U.K., 2002). Clearly this example shows the benefit
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