Debate over the British government's controversial Rwanda bill has once again raised the question of whether a written constitution would help or hinder the process to allow the deportation of illegal ...

Our Constitution contains the written rules governing our political system. It floats on a sea of unwritten rules needed to make it work as intended. Adolf Hitler was not elected chancellor by voters.

America has an unwritten constitution. It’s not well-known, but it is powerful. It governs even the written constitution which we know so well. Where has such a constitution been hiding? In plain ...

It seems a strange thing to us in America, as we have lived under a written constitution for the better part of two and a half centuries. But Britain has lived with its unwritten constitution much ...

Gregory Shenkman (“Unique success of Britain’s unwritten constitution”, Letters, September 15) is right to praise the flexibility of the UK’s constitution, although he might have done well, too, to ...

Playing to type, Harvard and Yale law professors have taken to the pages of The New York Times to say that we should trash the Constitution. Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn (of Harvard and Yale, ...

THE PHRASE “checks and balances” does not appear anywhere in the United States constitution; and yet in a manual for Martians on how America governs itself it would be on page one. Those three words ...