Ordinary American citizens if asked to pick a justice system other than the US they would trust their fates to would likely select Britain or Canada.
I'm an American, and the fuck ever, dude.
Didn't the UK recently eliminate 800 year old guarantees to a trial by jury and protections against double jeopardy? Didn't they then install a phony bill of rights, overturnable by scarcely over 300 MPs?
I would in a heartbeat choose the US legal system. We have
Grand Juries
A bill of rights enforced and protected by a judiciary free from executive and legislative interferance
Trial by Jury
A freer press; we don't get news from government outlets nearly as much as Commonweathers do and politians have a much higher burden when suing
for libel.
A written constitution
No french-speaking federal parner with a far weaker tradition of civil liberties than that which is usually found in the English speaking world. I read that seditious libel may become a crime again in the EU(see #4 above).
I don't want to read like I'm knocking the British. Far from so. The American constitution guarantees "due process of law". No definition was
needed; to this day, we enjoy what was once known as English Liberty.
This is a case of a bad law. The ruling had nothing to do with Scientology. State legislatures
are, for the most part, run by amatures. The courts will, I suspect, rectify this in short order. The Bill of Rights applies even in the People's Republic of California. In the big picture, the US is still the gold standard of world freedom.
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I'm an American, and the fuck ever, dude.
Didn't the UK recently eliminate 800 year old guarantees to a trial by jury and protections against double jeopardy? Didn't they then install a phony bill of rights, overturnable by scarcely over 300 MPs?
I would in a heartbeat choose the US legal system. We have
I don't want to read like I'm knocking the British. Far from so. The American constitution guarantees "due process of law". No definition was needed; to this day, we enjoy what was once known as English Liberty.
This is a case of a bad law. The ruling had nothing to do with Scientology. State legislatures are, for the most part, run by amatures. The courts will, I suspect, rectify this in short order. The Bill of Rights applies even in the People's Republic of California. In the big picture, the US is still the gold standard of world freedom.
Modernise THAT, Tony Blair
-kwy