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This. The illusion that you could fend off tyranny with a piece of paper was always a bit ridiculous, and it shows.

• isk517 10mo ago
  Arguably it's purpose is to define where government responsibility ends and tyranny begins. Very useful if the population it applies to cares about it being violated
  • gizajob 10mo ago
    The Magna Carta was meant to formalise that spec 800 years ago.
  • exe34 9mo ago
    I suspect there is a hysteresis loop - it has to get really bad before the population changes phase.