Arguments for a Written Constitution for the United Kingdom

PETITION FOR A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

(Working Draft 19.45 pm 13 July 2024)

An Unwritten Constitution should not be foisted upon the people: it is wrong morally.

The reason that there is no written Constitution in the United Kingdom is that Monarchists within the State facilitate the Monarchy to become dictatorial from time to time during the course of history which would be fine if that is what the majority of the population actually wish but it should be explicitly documented into a Written Constitution. People are then fully  informed on what to expect from the government that they live under. In ancient times people lived entirely in servitude so that rulers ruled as they pleased. The concept of the Written Constitution marked the beginning of civilisation.

The most useful benefit from a change from the unwritten to a written Constitution will be that it would prevent the Head of State from discharging his or her duties secretively from behind the scenes away from the public eye. The role of the Constitutional Head of State from the existing Royal Family remains unclear to this day and what is also unknown is whether the Monarch can be dethroned, or impeached in Parliament for failure to adhere to his or her duties in a moral and legal manner and what those norms should be.

Parliament’s Select Committee for Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (PACAS) should be charged with formulating these constitutional clarifications and the appropriate document for voting in both the Chambers of Parliament on whether the Monarch should have absolute unlimited powers or it should be limited as a Cultural Monarchy.

The Written Constitution must clearly outline the relationship between the Ceremonial Head of State and the Parliament at both House of Commons and the House of Lords and its connectioons with the Security Servies that is not exclusively the Constabulary but includes MI5/MI6.

The Written Constitution should then be put to a Yes/No referendum of the population; and if there is a Yes decision from the electorate to have a Written Constitution it should be enacted in Parliament with provisions made that all subsequent amendments to the Written Constitution when these take place are through Parliamentary approval first and then must go to another referendum of the population.

The objective of the Written Constitution is therefore to keep people better informed on who is in charge of procedures of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords, what the functions of the Consultant Psychiatrists, Chief Constables of Police Forces are and who are the officials in secondary institutions of the State against whom a citizen can successfully prosecute in civil and criminal courts of the United Kingdom.

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