Constitution or a Piece of Paper?
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
Onghokham*
*Historian
Not all countries have a constitution. The United Kingdom, one of the oldest and most developed countries in the world, can be said to be without a constitution. The Magna Carta (1215), a treaty between King John Lackland and the nobility of that time, was merely an effort to limit the powers the king and his officials had. Afterwards, a struggle for influence or power expanded to pit the nobility against commo |
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