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> a modern first world democracy I mean, they try. Compared to the US government the UK government doesn’t feel architected in any way, it’s just entirely wack
by swiley 6y ago
> a modern first world democracy
I mean, they try. Compared to the US government the UK government doesn’t feel architected in any way, it’s just entirely wacky tradition. The House of Lords is totally bizarre for example and that makes me question both the “modern” and “democracy” part.
Then again we have the parts of the USG responsible for the CFR (as opposed to the US code which comes from the democratic part) which is kind of the same thing (I can’t remember what they’re called off the top of my head.)
- threatofrain 6y agoThe US government is under specified in many ways and where things are legally gray people often depend on traditions and norms to provide moral and institutional efficacy.
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- toyg 6y agoThe UK Parliament is the mother of modern representative democracy, but it's so old that it now looks a bit like your grand-grandma: on a wheelchair, muttering incoherently most of the time, and struggling to understand anything in the conversation.