I think all this might be curiously exemplified in the British constitution.
When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal, if not the only possible meaning the word has.
It is in this case as with what is called the British constitution.
They thus have a central role in the development of the British constitution.
Fidelity to the British constitution, the duty and interest of the people.
Everyone knows that the British constitution provides for a system of representative and responsible government.
The British constitution was adjusting to the changed realities of economic power in the country at large.
Informed commentators, then, came to describe and explain the working of the British constitution in the following way.
Experts were increasingly unclear as to what was the British constitution.
From this point of view, the liberal-democratic British constitution is not taken seriously.