Thursday, 14 February 2008

A Written Constitution?

What does Jack Straw suppose that the Attlee Government would have been able to do if the United Kingdom had had at that time a written Constitution devised and enacted by any previous Government?
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous14 February 2008 at 17:25

    Propose amendments to it.

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  2. David Lindsay14 February 2008 at 17:37

    They really would have had to have been very extensive amendments indeed. And Straw presumably wants the British Constitution to have the same hallowed status as the American one. In which case, it will not only be extremely difficult to amend in principle, but bordering on impossible to amend in practice.

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  3. Anonymous15 February 2008 at 09:29

    The American constitution I grant you is difficult to amend due to needing approval from congress, the states and the constitutional convention.

    However for example in Ireland the constitution is quite easily amended once it has got past the Oireachtas. All it needs is the approval of the people.

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  4. David Lindsay15 February 2008 at 17:23

    I don' think that that's quite what Straw has in mind.

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