215: The Big Card
Dear Hank & John
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What's on the Big Card?
There is no single written constitutional document of the u. K. Instead, there are all of these traditions about how government happens. There are obvious advantages to having a constitution, like you can point to this or that. But if i've learned anything from studying world history, it's that constitutions only matter when people believe in them. That much of what we sort of think of as like, definite, like this is how things work, isn'tit? It's not constitutional. We have also learned in the U.K. that our country has worked for a long time because of its tradition and precedent. I would argue that vincem iss over the last 804 years.
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