Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
by rusk on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @09:42AM
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Imagine if nasty old bits like not allowing Jews to inherit property got embedded
Seems like a strawman, but I guess if that were the case it would have been amended out years ago ...
Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
by Nasrudith on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:15AM
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Semantics about strawmen applied to history aside it still would have added significant friction to it. Antisemitism was downright fashionable until WW2 and it could have impeded more gradual progress like the first Jewish member of parliament. It can be changed but it is significantly harder and easily can wind up judged "not worth the effort". Just look at how long it has been since the US ratified an amendment to the constitution.
Ironically the actual things to object to the EU about like their godawful internet policy proposals aren't on the radar.
Anyway UK has parliamentary supremacy so a constitution would be empty words without changing that. I would say that the policy seems very dangerous but constituions are messy in terms of getting ease of change right - especially in such an legal body. Imagine if nasty old bits like not allowing Jews to inherit property got embedded.