Recent populist grifters in the United Kingdom and the United States have tested those systems by ignoring not only laws and rules but norms and values: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/10/the-uks-unwritten-constitution-is-put-to-the-test-by-johnsons-unprincipled-acts

While I agree with the implicit argument of the author, a constitution cannot solve all of these problems alone (cf. America).

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