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istjohnyesterday at 3:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

From your link: "This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched."

It doesn't look like a duck, it doesn't quack like a duck, yet you insist that this goose-shaped creature is a duck.


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ponkpandayesterday at 4:54 PM

>It doesn't look like a duck

Some special amendment procedure is not the only or even defining feature of constitutional law. There is non-constitutional law that has this property and there is constitutional law that does not.

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FuriouslyAdriftyesterday at 5:58 PM

I've heard it said that they have a constitution but it's written in pencil...

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