Hi Alan! First off I think I talk for everyone when I say THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!! Seriously your help has been insurmountable. Could we please have a video dedicated to current events and politics in 2020? Information that would help us in our exams
Hi Rene, thank you for your kind comment. It is certainly my intention to do this, I have done some in my 'An Aside with Alan' playlist. More will come when I'm more on top of the core content
Alan once again this lecture vividly explains the constitution related issues. I have a question. You have mentioned the pros and cons of a codified British constitution. But why did Britain not feel to have a codified constitution historically(starting from 1215)?
The British Constitution has grown organically over time and there has never been agreement on what a codified constitution should look like or even that their should be one.
Ideally you should illustrate with examples showing when the lack of an entrenched codified constitution has caused problems and when it has been beneficial (you could also use examples of issues in the US)
I'm not a big fan, as I think it is open to abuse, however it is interesting to see that codified constitution also have problems as being demonstrated in the US at the moment
So effectively citizens are at the mercy of the powerful. If laws can be changed at a whim by the powerful then we do not live in a nation that believes in the rule of law as the law can be changed whenever it's suits them
the Dunblane massacre was the cause of gun law restrictions in the uk to be changed in an easy and appropriate reaction allowed by uncodified constitution
As an American greatly interested in forms of gov’t, I’m greatly disappointed that we’re used as the example of basically anything that isn’t Commonwealth. There are far richer examples of representative democracy just on the other side of the Channel-or hell! even in the British Isles (Ireland)! Constitutions, like any major state institution, *are what one makes them*.There a million places that have done better than us and are less restrictive than us-even w/in the commonwealth itself (e.g. Canada’s tiered amending formulas)!
I disagree. I live here in the UK and the ability of the courts to flip flop on fundamental issues is very worrying. When you live in a nation with a living constitution it makes it very difficult to know where you stand as a citizen as the courts can apply one judgement here and another judgement there at a whim
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Hi Alan! First off I think I talk for everyone when I say THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!! Seriously your help has been insurmountable. Could we please have a video dedicated to current events and politics in 2020? Information that would help us in our exams
Hi Rene, thank you for your kind comment. It is certainly my intention to do this, I have done some in my 'An Aside with Alan' playlist. More will come when I'm more on top of the core content
thanks for the great video! so helpful. would you be able to do like a crash course video summarising each papers topics?
Alan once again this lecture vividly explains the constitution related issues. I have a question. You have mentioned the pros and cons of a codified British constitution. But why did Britain not feel to have a codified constitution historically(starting from 1215)?
The British Constitution has grown organically over time and there has never been agreement on what a codified constitution should look like or even that their should be one.
Thank you for such a clear and comprehensive explanation ☺️
This is super helpful thanks so much
Glad it was helpful!
sentiment expressed in slide at 8:15 moderately unsettling. american admiration for state and constitution is clearly deranged. thanks alan.
Hi if I was to make an essay on this topic do I have to use examples or should I just state why the uk constitution should be codified or unconfined
Ideally you should illustrate with examples showing when the lack of an entrenched codified constitution has caused problems and when it has been beneficial (you could also use examples of issues in the US)
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Thank you very much, that really helped
Glad it helped
Hi great video thanks, what is your opinion of a codified constitution and your opinion of a uncodified constitution?
I'm not a big fan, as I think it is open to abuse, however it is interesting to see that codified constitution also have problems as being demonstrated in the US at the moment
So effectively citizens are at the mercy of the powerful. If laws can be changed at a whim by the powerful then we do not live in a nation that believes in the rule of law as the law can be changed whenever it's suits them
this is great but need examples
the Dunblane massacre was the cause of gun law restrictions in the uk to be changed in an easy and appropriate reaction allowed by uncodified constitution
As an American greatly interested in forms of gov’t, I’m greatly disappointed that we’re used as the example of basically anything that isn’t Commonwealth. There are far richer examples of representative democracy just on the other side of the Channel-or hell! even in the British Isles (Ireland)! Constitutions, like any major state institution, *are what one makes them*.There a million places that have done better than us and are less restrictive than us-even w/in the commonwealth itself (e.g. Canada’s tiered amending formulas)!
I disagree. I live here in the UK and the ability of the courts to flip flop on fundamental issues is very worrying. When you live in a nation with a living constitution it makes it very difficult to know where you stand as a citizen as the courts can apply one judgement here and another judgement there at a whim