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Happens all the time. The very union the British voted to Brexit lacks a ratified constitution, due to the rejection of referenda to ratify it in France and The
by acjohnson55 10y ago
Happens all the time. The very union the British voted to Brexit lacks a ratified constitution, due to the rejection of referenda to ratify it in France and The Netherlands. Yet, the project continues!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitution_for_Europe#Ratification https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Consti...
- mtgx 10y agoSpeaking of which, isn't it about damn time UK got its own Constitution?
- danieltillett 10y agoThe Uk has a constitution, it is just unwritten.
- have_faith 10y agoWe do have this (I know it's not the same thing exactly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoI get the feeling the Brits like to not have too many written rules. Including s constitution. Personally I think it is detrimental to them.
- toyg 10y agoDetrimental to whom? The upper classes love it: just make up stuff as you go along, depending on your needs.
- oblio 10y agoBy that criteria all the countries in the world have had constitutions from the beginning of time :)
- acjohnson55 10y agoWell, it's called that, but it might be more accurate to say that it is written in the form of hundreds of years of legislation, treaties, and judicial decisions, just not compiled into a single document. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin....