Democracy may one day come to the UK. But not before the people (in whom is true sovereignty) draft a written constitution - not the self-serving politicians who we vote in and out. A written consitutution would remove the parasites from our political system at a stroke. It would abolish monarchy. It would make government truly accountable at every single level. And, 200 years after many other nations have one the UK would finally have a right to claim that it is a democracy. Until then it's all the same nonsense, year after year.
There should be a national convention of ordinary citizens to draft such a written constitution - one made NOT by politicians but by the people. THAT is democracy - the one thing politicians cannot and will not allow.
2006-09-11 03:36:46 · 6 answers · asked by democracynow 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
A written consitution can of course be updated/amended from time to time. That is obvious. But without a written constitution no government has legality from the people it claims to serve. For democracy is government BY the people FOR the people and all other governments are vested interests and represent unelected elites or their succcessors. Nobody elected kings or lords. Democracy is the sovereignty of the people. And a written consititution contains the laws which elected rulers MUST work too. Such a consitution is not for politicians or kings to make. But the people themselves.
2006-09-11 04:48:31 · update #1
That the monarchy is an 'anachronism' is surely the understatement of the year. The monarchy claimed divine right to rule till it was forced to recognise the sovereignty of the people. By the 19th century it was still common for 30 people in a city of 50,000 to elect the lord they worked for. What a joke.
That the current situtation IS broke and needs fixing is indisputable. Fewer and fewer people believe in party politics. That is 'broke' by any definition.
It's because the British people are, generally, a lazy, slobbish bunch of 'Sun' readers with its elites happy to give us bread and circuses that allows this monstrosity to continue. Thomas Paine was right - any government that rules without the express will of the people limited by a written constitution is no more of a government than an actor is of reality.
Unaccountability is the true proof of our corrupt political system and we will pay heavily for it in a future time of crisis.
2006-09-11 06:33:35 · update #2
Oh get a grip, we have managed for the last thousand years with a largely unwritten constitution. O.K. the monarchy may be an anachronism but we still like it. This state of affairs gives us our dottiness and uniqueness - if it isn't broken, don't mend it!
2006-09-11 06:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by Raymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, a written Constitution by it self is just a paper.
Of course you can put what is essential legally speaking on a document.
But you need Law.
But you need to be a democrat.
I believe UK has done very well without one, but the States have one, may be the best so far and love it.
In my country we have also one which I think needs to change and to cut down half of the "blah-blah", but even so we need it.
2006-09-11 06:08:39 · answer #2 · answered by alcáçovas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you write a constitution today 200 years from now you will not recognize it as the politicians chip away at it until they get it in their own favor, that is what has happened to the U.S. constitution.
2006-09-11 03:45:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rubbish -- we don't need a constitution. Freedom is ingrained in our legal structure
2006-09-11 03:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by e404pnf 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
All that is necessary is the will to act.
2006-09-11 03:41:44 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the EU has done this for us.
2006-09-11 03:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋