Comment by brigandish
6 months ago
> 3. The likelihood of a British constitution is increasing, which would somewhat bind future parliaments.
As an repetition of and an aside to all those pointing out that there is a constitution, what may find gaining some momentum after this are calls for a Bill of Rights, something England used to have[1].
The Bill of Rights was never repealed, so there’s no “used to” about it.
That's a sophist's argument. There's a reason it's qualified as the 1689 Bill of Rights, because it doesn't exist as a bill of rights any more. Parts of it were subsumed by other laws, parts of it repealed - where is your right to bear arms?
> That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.
This part of it could hardly have been retained unaltered.