Things in England have been the same for hundreds and hundreds of years. The King or Queen is the figurehead while the Prime Minister and Parliament run the nation. The have a House of Lords and a House of Commons. There is no written document. There is not system of checks and balances. Common law is the way the judicial system works. Those our nation's fathers fled from for religious freedom were used as a …
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…It is a government for the people and by the people. We have certain unalienable rights that cannot ever be taken away. We have a written form that outlines what are the boundaries that our government can have. They can keep each other accountable, and if they fail, we have the ultimate right to throw that government out. No other nation, no other constitution has this. This is America, and we are like no other.