>>3392521Basically we Brits never got round to writing a codified constitution like in America (and most of the rest of the world) - it's a convuluted mess of centuries-old precedent, international treaties, laws laid down by the commons and people's charters written at random intervals (the first being Magna Carta, and the closest we've ever had to a single constitution in the way you Americans would consider it). If you trace these laws back to their source, a lot of them derive from the absolute power of the royal family, which they gave away/were forced to give up over the years - to remove them would destroy the legal basis for a lot of English law - they are the legitimisation of government power in a similar way to democratic elections are in America.
That said, I think its fucking ridiculous that we still have the royal family, and we could well bring in a constitution at the same time as their removal that moves the legitimisation of state-wielded power to the democratic representatives of the people, rather than an inbred, unelected family out of touch utterly with the aspirations and lives of the common man.