Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written cons…

Margaret Thatcher
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Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.
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