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Originally posted by The Barbarian:
Originally posted by Peter:
I don't know about constitutions ... we don't have one in the UK.
King George III said that he had never seen the British Constitution, but then he had never seen God, either,and he believed in both.
Was that before or after he went mad?
But he was right to believe - Britain (as a Scot, I shudder to write that word) does not have a single constitutional document. The constitution is the net effect of a range of laws including the Act of Settlement, the 1689 Bill of Rights, etc.
As we so often discuss standards of proof and evidence in this forum, the following quote from the 18th century Scottish Judge, Braxfield, may be entertaining: "Now, before this can be answered, two things must be attended to that require no proof: FIRST, that the British constitution is the best that ever was since the creation of the world, and it is not possible to make it better." I can't find his quote on the second thing online, I seem to remember it was that anyone who proposed to change the perfect constitution was prima facie an enemy of the state.
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