Sir John Laws, the originator of the principle of constitutional statutes, suggests that the protection accorded to them has its roots in the protection from implied repeal given to the European Communities Act 1972 and to constitutional fundamentals. We argue that this suggestion is more convincing with regard to the latter than it is with the former. Further, we contend that founding constitutional statutes on the protection afforded to constitutional fundamentals rather than the 1972 Act may provide a stronger basis for the principle of such statutes if the UK leaves the European Union. We then provide evidence that the idea of constitutional statutes has been accepted across the three arms of state and argue that, as a consequence, the rule of recognition may be taken to have changed to encompass the amendment to the implied repeal rule that such statutes represent.

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宪法法规——根源与认可

宪法成文原则的创始人约翰·劳斯爵士表示，给予它们的保护源于对 1972 年欧洲共同体法和宪法基本原则的默示废除保护。我们认为这个建议对于后者比对于前者更有说服力。此外，我们认为，如果英国离开欧盟，建立宪法基本法保护宪法而不是 1972 年法案可能会为此类法规的原则提供更强有力的基础。然后我们提供证据证明宪法的想法已被三个国家所接受，并认为，因此，