How vulnerable are various Western Supreme Courts from devolving into the mockery that is the current US one?
How vulnerable are various Western Supreme Courts from devolving into the mockery that is the current US one?
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While the USA is a relatively young country, it's oddly one of the oldest democracies.
I believe most other democracies have better-written laws and better checks and balances because, in part, of mistakes the founders made when writing the US constitution (which was always a highly imperfect compromise, allowed for slavery, and had to be ammended several times just to patch it up).
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in. But I think the shitshow we call the SCOTUS is somewhat unique.
one of the oldest democracies.
The Greek cities want to have a word with you.
They are covered by the "one of" part of the sentence. And the current Greek democratic system is not old in the sense that the US system is old.
Greek democracy has also been far from continuous, if we want to take that into account.
far from continuous
lasted longer than the whole Usa LOL
Which is why I said "one of". Keep calm and pedant on.
Well they wrote that yesterday, on one of the oldest days.