Research Paper on:
United Kingdom's Constitution and Conventions

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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