August 24, 2005
Quote of the Day
My own sense is that this stuff isn't as important as we like to make it. Americans are unusually legalistic and unusually focused on constitutions. But plenty of constitutions have wonderful language on paper (the old Soviet constitution was great that way) and plenty of countries (Britain, for example) manage to get by without written constitutions at all. What matters more is political culture. If the Iraqi people want a free, prosperous country and are willing to work for it, they'll get that. If they don't, or aren't, then they won't.Posted by Karol at August 24, 2005 12:25 PM | TrackBack
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Parts of the British Constitution are in fact written documents.
1689 Declaration of Rights, often called the Bill of Rights lays down the principles and rights of our system of Constitutional Monarchy.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/rise_parliament/making_history_rise.htm
Magna Carta and the 1701 Act of Settlement are 2 others.
Its perhaps more accurate to state that the British Constitution is not one single document. Large parts of it are nevertheless written.
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