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Sidenote: David Allen Green, the author of this blog, is a brilliant writer on constitutional law in the UK. It is quite a subject since Britain doesn't have a
by jimnotgym 2y ago
Sidenote: David Allen Green, the author of this blog, is a brilliant writer on constitutional law in the UK. It is quite a subject since Britain doesn't have a written constitution. He was a wonderful guide through the Brexit chicanery.
- freedomben 2y agoFor people like me wondering how it's possible not to have a written constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin... tldr: it is actually (literally) "written", but not all in the same place. It's scatterred throughout various places.
- jfengel 2y agoThe US Constitution is "written" but is essentially incomprehensible without a stack of Supreme Court decisions the size of Mount Everest. (Perhaps literally.) None of the words mean what you would think they mean.
- aidenn0 2y agoWith the current court signalling a somewhat higher-than-normal willingness to overturn past decisions, those words not mean what many lawyers previously might have advised they meant.
- jimnotgym 2y agoApart from the constitutional conventions which may be unwritten. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_conventions_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_conventions_o...