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"One of the advantages of our uncodified constitution is the unfettered power of our sovereign parliament to create law," he added.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023

Under Britain’s complex, uncodified constitution, parliament is sovereign, although the exact scope of that sovereignty has been subject to legal debate during the Supreme Court hearing.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2019

Because the U.K.’s constitution is largely uncodified, and reliant on practice and precedent, there is some genuine uncertainty about what is being set in motion.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2019

The Trust Act is similar in many respects to uncodified policies for handling illegal immigrants in place in Montgomery County and other Maryland suburbs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2017

It was in cipher, and it contained two uncodified words—"Fort" and "McCook," which small circumstance set Dix to thinking—Fort McCook being the army post, twelve miles as the crow flies, down the Pannikin from Copah.

From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Lynde, Francis