The British still don't even have free speech as a "right" over there either. It's a privilege.
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The resolve and ability to just muddle through it (it being whatever issue is at hand) may be the defining national characteristic.
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Indeed. "We'll just fix this as we go along."
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And yet they will argue that they have a "constitution" and that it's somehow a sacred concept.
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Well, a lot of the evolution has taken the form of express legislation, though. See for example Union with Scotland Act 1706, Representation for the People Act 1832, Life Peerages Act 1958, European Communities Act 1972, House of Lords Act 1999, Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
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Right. But Parliament could repeal any one of those tomorrow if the mood struck.
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And look where that's gotten them.
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Compare with other nations that existed in 1689.
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Which is exactly why the fixed term parliament act was a terrible idea. It broke the constitution, we are seeing the symptoms of the broken constitution now.
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