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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Maybe no change is good... You mention Brown vs. Topeka. Roe v Wade is still tearing apart society... Maybe the court should have said nothing, leaving it state jurisdictions, or to the legislature
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It's in the nature of the sort of issues you have with both a presidential government, codified constitution and a powerful supreme court along with separation of powers.
People really don't realise how different it is in the UK, where we have an cabinet government, uncodified constitution with parliamentary sovereignty*, a relatively weak supreme court and fusion of powers. Of course, we have our own problems, but they're quite different in nature - and for all the political divisions we have, the divisions between supporters of different parties tend to be less clear-cut and sometimes bitter.
(*Parliament can pass no law which a later parliament cannot modify or repeal.)