The Brits have no Bill of Rights like the US.
“The Brits have no Bill of Rights like the US.”
They don’t have a constitution.
They have no law except what the King or Queen says.
That’s literally true til today.
Yes, the Brits have a bill of Rights, it’s a bit older than ours...let’s see how it stacks up... (it is still in effect and has been augmented by the Act of Settlement in 1701.
The basic tenets of the English Bill of Rights 1689 are:
Englishmen, as embodied by Parliament, possessed certain immutable civil and political rights. These included:
freedom from royal interference with the law (the Sovereign was forbidden to establish his own courts or to act as a judge himself)
freedom from taxation by royal prerogative, without agreement by Parliament
freedom to petition the king
freedom from a peace-time standing army, without agreement by Parliament
freedom [for Protestants] to have arms for defense, as allowed by law
freedom to elect members of Parliament without interference from the Sovereign
the freedom of speech in Parliament, in that proceedings in Parliament were not to be questioned in the courts or in any body outside Parliament itself (the basis of modern parliamentary privilege)
freedom from cruel and unusual punishments, and excessive bail
freedom from fines and forfeitures without trial