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<h1>British Constitution</h1>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
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<p>British Constitution (or simply Constitution) is a solitaire
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card game which is played with two decks of playing cards. It is a
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card game with a high chance in winning.</p>
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<p>First, the kings, queens, and aces are removed from the stock.
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The kings and queens are discarded, while the aces are placed in a
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row to form the "Government" or the foundations, which are built up
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by suit to jacks.</p>
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<p>Below the aces, four rows of eight cards each are dealt. This
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forms the tableau (also known as the "Constitution").</p>
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<p>The cards available for building in the foundations should come
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from Row 1 (also known as the "Privy Council") only. Furthermore,
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cards in Row 1 can be built down by alternating colors. Available
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for building in Row 1 are the top cards of the piles in Row 1
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(initially containing only one card per pile) and the cards from
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Row 2. Only one card can be moved at a time.</p>
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<p>When a card leaves from either Row 1 or 2, the space it leaves
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behind must be filled with any card from the row immediately below
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it, not necessarily the one immediately below the space. The space,
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in essence, is pushed downwards until it reaches Row 4 (the "People
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Row"), where it is filled with a card from the stock. This is the
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only way cards from the stock enter the game. Furthermore, cards
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from the stock cannot be played directly to the foundations. If no
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more spaces appear in Row 4 with cards still undealt from the
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stock, the game is lost.</p>
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<p>The game is won when all cards are built in the foundations up
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to jacks.</p>
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<p>Lady Cadogan's rule set specified that as the tableau is being
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set up, one Queen of Diamonds and the eight kings are put above the
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foundations; the <b>Q</b><img src="../images/d.gif" /> being "The
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Sovereign," the black Kings being the "Bishops," and the red Kings
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the "Judges," all placed above the foundation. The other Queens are
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discarded. Since these nine cards clearly play a purely decorative
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role in this game, most modern rule sets bypass this, which
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explains the reason the kings and queens are discarded completely
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as mentioned above.</p>
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<p><i>(Retrieved from <a href=
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"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Constitution_%28solitaire%29">
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Constitution_(solitaire)</a>)</i></p>
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