British constitution

I sincerely hope that the lecturers of local and central government studies at the Royal Society of Arts of the United Kingdom have not read Revel Barker's letter entitled What Constitution. (August 16)

Britain, of course, has a Constitution. Probably Mr Barker misunderstood the unique nature of the British Constitution as being made up of both unwritten and written sources as meaning that Britain does not have a Constitution at all.

Secondly, when I wrote in my original article that the Maltese Constitution comprises the main and most important features of the British Constitution but certainly not all, I did so in order to be legally correct and not as a means of including an "escape clause".

For instance, one of the most notable exceptions is that the UK Constitution has the notion of parliamentary sovereignty at its core and thus, as a consequence, the doctrine of "limited government", central in all written constitutions, is not prominent in the UK Constitution.

Under the Maltese Constitution the situation is different and from then on I built my whole legal argument.