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Constitutions are a pretty common way to say "no to this kind of thing".


Constitutions have a lot of "except in cases prescribed by the law" exceptions which makes it possible to pass into law all kinds of abuses.


Indeed. It seems that the only way out is to elect a government that would have that on their program. Dubious that this will happen.


Governments don't change constitutions pretty much anywhere. More also constitution changes are notoriously hard from requiring 75% of parliament votes, to 66% in two consecutive parliament assemblies (need to pass an election), and all versions in-between (or not having a codified constitution).


> Governments don't change constitutions pretty much anywhere.

They do sometimes manage to just ignore parts that they don't like sometimes, at least temporarily, as the recent and continuing mess in the DPR-US illustrates.




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