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The Uncodified Constitution of the United Kingdom

1215–2013 · Europe · 18 documents

The United Kingdom has no single, codified constitution. Its rules are found across landmark Acts of Parliament, the common law and long-standing conventions. Collected here are its foundational statutes — from Magna Carta (1297) to the Human Rights Act and the devolution Acts — that together do a written constitution's work.

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Document OneMagna Carta 1297Articles 1 – 3
Document TwoThe Petition of Right 1628Articles 1 – 4
Document ThreeHabeas Corpus Act 1679Articles 1 – 12
Document FourBill of Rights 1689Article 1
Document FiveAct of Settlement 1701Articles 1 – 4
Document SixUnion with Scotland Act 1706Articles 1 – 6
Document SevenUnion with Ireland Act 1800Articles 1 – 2
Document EightParliament Acts 1911 and 1949Articles 1 – 10
Document NineLife Peerages Act 1958Articles 1 – 2
Document TenEuropean Communities Act 1972Articles 1 – 9
Document ElevenSenior Courts Act 1981Articles 1 – 164
Document TwelveNorthern Ireland Act 1998Articles 1 – 163
Document ThirteenScotland Act 1998Articles 1 – 163
Document FourteenHuman Rights Act 1998Articles 1 – 23
Document FifteenHouse of Lords Act 1999Articles 1 – 6
Document SixteenConstitutional Reform Act 2005Articles 1 – 184
Document SeventeenGovernment of Wales Act 2006Articles 1 – 209
Document EighteenFixed-term Parliaments Act 2011Articles 1 – 7

Official source: UK Legislation — legislation.gov.uk