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The hole is the lack of access to the courts to to appeal decisions of the Government on maybe 90% of the business of the Governement. If you read the rest of t
by eointierney 6y ago
The hole is the lack of access to the courts to to appeal decisions of the Government on maybe 90% of the business of the Governement. If you read the rest of the article it's actually pretty cool if old fashioned. If it was justicable it would be awesome.
- barry-cotter 6y agoNo, this is good. If the people want something they can vote a government in to do it. Otherwise you get abominations like when the Taiwanese Supreme Court legalized gay marriage after a referendum rejected it. If you’re going to go that far you might as well just drop the democratic pretense from liberal democracy and just go with liberalism.
- anoncake 6y agoIf making gay marriage illegal violates the Taiwanese constitution, the people had already decided they want it to be legal. If they don't want that, they can change the constitution.
- riffraff 6y agoI'm not irish, but the oireachtas should be the legislature, not the government, no? If so, this is not uncommon in constitutions, the term in the italian legal system is "autodichia" (something like "self-justice"). If you didn't have this then the law would be decided by unelected officials.
- anoncake 6y agoNo, the law would be "decided" by judges. But actually they just make sure it's consistent with the constitution, which is higher law. If you don't want a part of the constitution to be enforced, why should it even be there?