@davidaugust I may have mentioned it before, but I have an acquaintance who's quite fond of saying that the UK is a Constitutional state, but their Constitution isn't completely written down. The closest thing to a written Constitution they have is the Magna Carta.
And at the end of the day, what enforced the Magna Carta wasn't paper, or legislature, or learned men sitting in dour rooms debating the finer points of habeas corpus.
It was that any time the king stepped too far over the line, as judged by the people of the time?
He paid with his life.
The Magna Carta is written on parchment. With blood.
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