Entrenchment/Codification/Unitary

• Entrenched


  An entrenched constitution has a special status above regular laws and requires complex procedures to change it. Makes change less likely.
• Unentreched

  An unentrenched constitution does not recognise constitutional law as different of supreme to statutory laws, amending the constitution fairly simple.
• Positives of unentrenched


  Can keep up with contemporary society.

  Patchwork of sources makes it just about difficult enough to change.
• Codified


  A constitution written in one document.
• Uncodified

  UK Constitution.

  Not unwritten, but partly written across many different sources.
• Unitary

  The central government has supreme power over the entirety of the UK