Britain has no written Constitution. Meet the man who drafted one.

The Washington Post ^ | June 7, 2015 | Griff Witted

[SvenMagnussen]

Britain is one of only three major democracies in the world that lacks a written, codifed constitution. With the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta approaching June 15, 2015 and with the country facing profound existential questions, some in Britain wonder whether it's time to change that.

At the request of Parliament's Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, King's College London scholar Robert Blackburn spent four years drafting blueprints for a full-fledged constitution. The results were published last year in a parliamentary report titled "A New Magna Carta?"

[SvenMagnussen]

Robert Blackburn: "There is growing momentum behind a written constitution coming from different quarters, reflecting the different advantages it has to offer. After several decades of academic debate on the arguments and issues involved at our universities and political societies, it is now a more familiar subject with many accepting it is a less radical and more “do-able” proposition compared to what they originally thought. Certainly the main challenge is achieving cross-party co-operation in a highly adversarial system of politics, but the growing pressures and sense of crisis in our political arrangements may well provide the required motivation to party leaders to think and work positively together towards a change that would greatly enhance our democracy and the stability of the country."

[CondorFlight]

Watch that free speech will be limited, freedom to preach any religious views that conflict with PC-norms will be restricted,
freedom to oppose the state’s views about same-sex marriage, etc., will be limited.

And so on.

Otherwise there would be a complete reversal of current trends; and a granting of protection for a diversity of viewpoints; which I can’t see modern Britain adopting.

[SvenMagnussen]

Proposed Consitutional Code begins on Page 32, A New Magna Carta? at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmpolcon/463/463.pdf

[PGalt]

After several decades of academic debate on the arguments and issues involved at our universities and political societies, it is now a more familiar subject with many accepting it is a less radical and more “do-able” proposition compared to what they originally thought.

It would be interesting to see those debates and what the anti-constitutionalists think, or the average person on the street for that matter.

Interesting document and a very interesting history. Thanks for posting.