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Originally Posted by HarryT
The UK does have a constitution - an unwritten one, based on common law and 1000 years of legal precident. Constitutional questions not uncommonly arise in the House of Lords - the highest British law court.
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The historian David Starkey was on the BBC yesterday, he said there were only two countries in the world were clerics were automatically part of the governing system - Iran and the UK (cos bishops make up part of the House of Lords here).
Much of the discussion here seems to be about the UK, but that isn't always representative of Europe as a whole.
Away from politics, I think American culture is more sentimental than European (no sad endings in Hollywood films!).
European culture is more cynical.
Generally speaking of course.
