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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's so much easier for the frog to not realize it's being boiled in the UK because there's no consolidated constitution to point to

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

That's just because the R's expressly don't care about constitutionality. If the UK had a written constitution, both parties are still at a level of integrity where they'd want to (at least appear to) be keeping it, so a judicial challenge to these terrorist acts might have actually struck them down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Democrats don't care about the Constitution either. Their platform certainly isn't filled with promises to say, repeal the post 9/11 mass surveillance laws. They have zero interest in curtailing the powers of an out-of-control presidency; they just want those powers for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's because they lose their bargaining chips for elections, also being wealthy , that why they don't reverse the tax cuts with the next preisdent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn't have written constitution doesn't mean there's no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Hmm true, there is the ECHR. But it is implemented into british law in such a way that there's nothing stopping laws being passed which are incompatible with it. Whereas with the US and other constitutions you have judicial review.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's not specific to having a constitution. Judges in the Netherlands for example also cannot do a judicial review to determine the constitutionality of any passed laws. And that's with a written constitution. There's also no supreme court. The closest thing is the Raad van State (the "state council"), which evaluates all laws on proportionality, constitutionality, and executability, and then advises the government what to do with a law. It's convention that that advice is followed, but it's not required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Interesting, I didn'tknow about that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Except when it comes to trans people. Judicial review doesn't apply to trans people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One frog may feel powerless but many frogs together strong.