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> you should first have a constitution Sure they do. The constitution doesen't have to be a single document. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The America
by qwytw 4y ago
> you should first have a constitution
Sure they do. The constitution doesen't have to be a single document.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The American constitution has basically become immutable at this point while meaningful reform is still possible in Britain.
- astrange 4y agoI'd say Canada has a better system; there's at least a parliamentary act passed saying what's in the constitution, and the people who wrote it are still around to explain themselves. (Australia loses points because they forgot to have a bill of rights.) The US changes its constitution by just having the Supreme Court make things up. As you can see from the Lochner era, this has rarely worked well.
- goosedragons 4y agoThere are uncodefied parts of the Canadian constitution too. The codefied parts begin with a sentence that's essentially "copy/paste the UK constitution here". The Supreme Court of Canada has also said they can add unwritten parts of the constitution and the written parts aren't exhaustive.
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