> Perhaps the idea that convention and precedent is the only thing holding the British system together makes it stronger. This echos the Roman senate during th

> Perhaps the idea that convention and precedent is the only thing holding the British system together makes it stronger. This echos the Roman senate during the late Republican period quite strongly. They, like the British, depended on precedent (their "Mos Maiorum"). Like us Americans, once the social norms were violated things quickly devolved.