ellal wrote
We do not have a written constitution.
Our law is based on conventions, statutes and precedents...
But the highest authority in the land is parliament.
BUT, is that really true?
Is not the "highest authority in the land" the "people" who
elected the parliament.
(The "parliament" being the body who has the "authority" to "parlay" (talk to) the Monarch.)
(However, in the UK, in contrast with Australia (and the USA) the "people" did NOT elect the "upper house" of "parliament".)
That "
authority" of the
people in the UK to "parlay" with the Monarch has come
up, over time, from "Barons" (see Magna Carta,
Runnymede, 15 June 1215) to Male landholders, to Male Subjects of the Monarch (over a certain age) and now to
all Subjects of the Monarch (over a certain age).
(While in many other countries the term "Citizen" is used, in the UK and other British Commonwealth countries. all who consider that they are "citizens" are, actually, "Subjects of the Monarch".
They elect their "Governments" to "parley" with their Monarch as to the laws of the country concerned. (Hence "Parliament".)
The UK and other British Commonwealth Countries do just that when the Subjects in those countries elect representatives to "parley" with their Monarch so that the "Prime Minister" (Chief Advisor to the Monarch) of that Monarchy may advise the said Monarch (or the representative of the Monarchy, being a Governor General) as to the Laws which should be enacted by the Monarch or His/Her representative.)
Any such Monarch (or representative of such Monarchy) would be well advised
not to ignore any such advice, at their own peril.