The
Basis for a British Constitution?
There are clear signs – to my
mind – that we should have clarity on where we stand and what limitations are
on the British Government and its members.
Particularly in the recent light
of the developing realisations of how govenrment and its MPs operate, surely the first ‘right’ of
the citizen (assuming that freedom of speech is ‘given’) is to obtain clarity
on the constitution under which we live.
The fact that the British
constitution is largely unwritten and given our current state of affairs where
its leniancy is easily availed of, then it would seem
that now is the time for a written constitution, and one in which the values
under which government operates is clearly defined.
I would suggest that the
population mix and size and conditions of life and government are now so
complex that we have lost sight of a set of national values, and that this
situation makes a written constitution imperitive.
I suggest the following
model as a basis for the drafting of a written constitution.
Please e-mail me with your
comments/criticisms and whether you would be interested in helping to create a
lobby for this objective: mailto:john.lerwill@btinternet.com?subject=British
Constitution
Appropriate Punishment to Wrong-doers
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Re-statement of Habeus
Corpus
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No Connection with Torture in the UK or
overseas
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