Taspher’s Constitution Proposal
This is part of a series of threads I am making which cover the constitution of the UK and how we can fix it. You can find the main page for these threads here.
The Proposal
Explaination
It is well-known that Parliament cannot bind itself, and I have no desire to try and circumvent that. It is also true that the nature of power is strength. “If the law isn’t enforced, then it isn’t the law.” As such, I chose to entrench this bill by not entrenching it. Instead, the King is just told that by his Oath, he cannot give effect to a law which goes counter to this Constitution, under the implicit threat that if he breaks that oath, he can be removed from the throne.
The form of entrenchment is taken from Sweden. The reason being that I think we should still want a fairly flexible constitution, and using referendums to amend the constitution would be a mess. I deliberately left the Thanes out of this, but I would not be terribly opposed to a requirement to pass all three houses twice.
The Repeals section is nowhere near complete. This would have to be done closer to the time this bill is being passed.
Likewise, the transitional provisions section isn’t complete either. There needs to be a lot of thinking about implementation. For instance, the Shires need to be created and elected prior to the first election of this new Parliament. The transition between Police structures, the integration of territory, the transition of the Supreme Court back into the House of Lords, and so on and so forth would take a very long time to think about. In reality, it would be an entire part of this bill unto itself.
