Common Law Constitution HTML Library v5

Working library draft v5. Part of the Restore Constitutional Programme — Version 5.

Drafting note: This is a working constitutional drafting library, not legal advice or an assertion of present law.

Documents

Numbered source digest v5 — controlled source extracts and modern propositions from Magna Carta, Petition of Right, Habeas Corpus Act, Bill of Rights, Act of Settlement, Coronation Oath Act, Claim of Right, Acts of Union, and Toleration Act.
Modern Constitution draft v5 — updated working draft incorporating the agreed Version 5 amendments.
Concordance v5 — two-way links between source references and modern articles.

Added programme-origin and constitutional-diagnosis material.
Retained the common-law rights method and distinguished it from enumerated-rights instruments.
Added financial stewardship to Article 2 and renamed Article 2 accordingly.
Added the delegation/orphan-power principle to Article 1.
Added delegated-legislation restraint to Article 7.
Added public-body, ministerial-accountability, privilege, redress, and burden-of-proof provisions to Article 9.
Added broad emergency-powers principle and amendment procedure to Article 12.
Added a closing declaration.