Переведите ! the british constitution is an unwritten constitution, thus it is not contained in a single legal document. it is based on statutes and important documents ( such as the magna carta ), case law ( decisious taken by courts of law on constitutional matters ), customs and conventions, and it can be modified by a simple act of parliament like any other law. it contains two main principles - the rule of law ( i.e. that everyone, whatever his or her station, is sudject to the law ) and the supremacy of parliament, which implies that there is no body that can declare the activities of parliament unconstitutional and that parliament can in theory do whatever it wishes. the constitutional safeguard of the separation of powers between the legislature (the two houses of parliament), which makes laws, the executive ( the govwrnment) , which puts laws into effect and plans policy, and the judiciary, which decides on cases arising out of the laws, is only theoretical.