Re: UK referendum: Out
By any stretch, the UK has a constitution - except it really doesn't. We view the UK constitution as a constitution because it acts like one, definitely, but it is a compendium of legal documents, statutes, common laws... It's not a constitution per-se, but it does act like one.
And within this legal framework of the United Kingdom, you have the Parliament that acts as the sovereign power of the people. It's a matter of rule of law here. The High Court of Judges simply outlined that the UK constitution/legal documents have enforced for hundreds of years. Parliament is the boss and you have to respect the will of the Parliament. And that's not a constitutional crisis because it simply respected the rule of law, as it had been outlined for hundreds of years and that's how the British system has worked from the days of King John Lackland who was forced to sign the Magna Carta.
This is democracy. Just as the referendum was.
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