Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Jason White (jason@jasonjgw.net):
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Out of curiosity, are all of these rights guaranteed to .au citizens [Details...] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/index.html
Interesting (and thanks). For whatever it's worth, Wikipedia also has a fairly decent summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Australia#Australian_Constituti...
Now I feel guilty for asking Jason instead of doing my own fact check, since that's the page I would've ended up on.
The UK's situation is also interesting: There is no explicit written constitution, but the body and traditions established by common law are regarded as embodying the country's constitution.
Their constitution is unwritten, and is mostly based on common law and practice. In other words, they do something wrong and it then becomes the norm. -- Laurie Couturier, on the British legal system