On Friday, 9 March 2018 12:54:16 UTC, Mike Coon wrote:
In article ,
tabbypurr says...
On Friday, 9 March 2018 02:40:52 UTC, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

62. Israel is one of only three democracies in the world without a
codified constitution. The others are Britain and New Zealand.

We (UK) have the Magna Carta. While its provisions are few, one of them is more than a little important.


NT

I was looking at a presentation on and of Magna Carta in Salisbury on
Wednesday. (Unconnected with the fuss about the poisoning of a russian
spy, his daughter and a policeman in that city last weekend.)

IIRC less than 10% of its provisions are still encoded in current law
according to the modern translation.

3 bits are still law, of which the one I quoted is rather important. It may not be much quantity of a constitution compared to the US etc, but it's very important nonetheless.

Of course having a constitution does not ensure it gets enforced, as every country can demonstrate.


NT