constitution

[sgdcmills]

how many changes have been made to the constitution?

[archbishop]

If you are American count up the amendments.If you are British,we haven't got one.

[bernardo]

Loads. Professor J.A.G. Griffith of the London School of Economics once said that "The Constitution is what happens". It is constantly evolving and being developed with the passage of every law and every administrative decision made by ministers and others. People sometimes say that the UK does not have "a constitution" or that it does not have a "written constitution", but what they mean is that it is not codified in a single document and entrenched by a special procedure.

[bernardo]

It has just occurred to me that you may be asking about the USA constitution. In that case, I believe the answer is 25, but I'm not certain.

[bernardo]

Synchrography strikes again! Archbishop's inaccurate answer illustrates the common misconception which I was referring to.

[archbishop]

GAB Bernardo.But my answer was not inaccurate.As you say we have no specific written constition.

[bernardo]

Yea, indeed, verily, we do not have a specific constitution written into a single document, but that doesn't mean that we "don't have one", or even that we don't have a written one. Our written constitution is written in laws, books, text-books, students' essays, newspapers, magazine articles, and in the hearts of every British subject of Her Majesty... TTML GAB and OVS