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UltraSane • today at 3:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Parliament has absolutely no constitutional limits on it. It can and has made retroactive laws that are not allowed in the US.


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dgroshev • today at 3:47 PM

Parliament does have constitutional limits on it (for example, see timetabling powers or Erskine May), even if it can't pass acts that will bind future Parliaments. The constitution being (largely) unwritten and changeable doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The result is substantially more democratic, as per the list above.

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