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Old Mar 15, 2011 | 12:49 pm
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In fact the Bill of Rights originally was seen as redundant given that those rights were guaranteed by English common & constitutional law going back to the Magna Carta.

Fast forward another hundred years and we see that the English have devolved to abandon constitutional restraints in favor of parliamentary supremacy. The only constitutional constraint on the UK today is the EU charter, and that might well turn out to be a paper tiger.
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