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CONVENTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
We will use the words of a great
patriot historian Edward A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL. D-
Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. (1876)
From his: -
THE GROWTH
OF THE
ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
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MACMILLAN AND CO-LONDON
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‘We have a
whole system of political morality, a code of
precepts for the guidance of public men, which will
not be found in any page of either the Statute or
the Common Law, but which are in practice held
hardly less sacred than any principle embodied in
the Great Charter or in the Petition of Right.
In short, by the side of our written
law there has grown up an unwritten or Conventional
Constitution, when an Englishman speaks of the
conduct of a public man being Constitutional or
Unconstitutional, he means something wholly
different from what he means by his conduct being
legal or illegal.’
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NEED WE SAY
MORE
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DECEMBER-2008
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