Politics of Guernsey

Politics of Guernsey
The Crown Duke of Normandy King Charles III Lieutenant Governor Lieutenant General Richard Cripwell CB CBE
Government President of the Policy and Resources Committee Lyndon Trott
Legislature Bailiff Richard McMahon
Judiciary Law of Guernsey Crown Officers Jurat Courts of Guernsey
Administrative divisions Parishes
Elections Deputies Political parties Last election
Foreign policy Foreign relations
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Politics of Guernsey take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic British Crown dependency.

Guernsey has an unwritten constitution arising from the Treaty of Paris (1259). When Henry III and the King of France came to terms over the Duchy of Normandy, the Norman mainland the suzerainty of the King of France. The Channel Islands however remained loyal to the British crown due to the loyalties of its Seigneurs. But they were never absorbed into the Kingdom of England by any Act of Union and exist as "peculiars of the Crown".