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What? Of course the UK has a constitution. It is simply not codified into a single document.

• throwaway81523 5y ago
  I thought there was no constitution in the sense of a legal restriction against Parliament passing certain classes of laws, the way the US prevents Congress from passing certain laws. There are instead two conflicting strong traditions: 1) Parliament shouldn't do certain things; 2) acts of the current Parliament are never binding on later Parliaments. Any law the current one passes can be undone by a later one, things like Brexit notwithstanding since those are entangled with international treaties. So Parliament might attempt to pass a "prohibited" law, trigger some level of public outcry or even intervention from the Crown, but at the end of the day, getting it through (or not) is just a political contest. Is that wrong?
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    Has the US constitution ever been respected? There's plenty of human rights abuses in the history of the USA, most (not all) of which have been approved by congress. What's a piece of paper to protect people from institutions? If you want human rights for real, you want popular (armed) self-defense against the people in power and their police.