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SHOULD BRITAIN ADOPT A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION?
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SHOULD BRITAIN ADOPT A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION? Currently Britain's constitution is an unwritten one. This doesn't mean that it is literally unwritten but that it is set down in many different documents. Additionally there is no set bill of rights as there is in The United States of America. The constitution of the U.S.A. is written and codified. In America a bill of citizen's rights was set down in the mid 1770's and is entrenched in the constitution. In order to change the bill of rights a two thirds majority is required in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. A consequence of this is that it is very hard to change the U.S. constitution. It is, in fact, so difficult that since its creation, it has been changed only twenty six times. Ten of these changes were in the first five years of its existence. A constitution can be...
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