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(last post: March 13, 2008 - 03:56)
Citizen #34:
Dermot | > I think it is a basic tenet of a functioning legal democracy that if the law doesn't say it's forbidden, it's allowed. Yes, it is a feature of this law that it can be amended or even repealed by Parlamīnt without another referendum. When I suggested "entrenching" it (making it unamendable without another referendum) people shouted me down. So this is the halfway house. I'm surprised you don't remember that.
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We already entrench certain laws-thats why we have a written constitution. This requires a higher standard of approval by Parliament, so perhaps this is why it was not done in this way. All other laws should on principle be reversible by an elected Parliament. Those who objected were perfectly right to do so, IMHO.
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