Two arrested in Chicago for conspiracy to attack Jyllands-posten

[The Brain]

1. Sorry, that's just not good enough for something that is put forward as a serious alternative to a constitutional court.

Why not? Can you give any examples of when our current system has produced unwanted consequenses?

2. Gee, I guess that's why it would be useful to, you know, have a constitutional court to settle these things. Funny that.

And why can't the supreme court settle these things?

The supreme court doesn't have the function a constitutional court would have.

[Pat]

There's for example in Regeringsformen that the Swedish constitution takes precedence over agreement with foreign entities. I.e. the constitution is at the top of the Swedish hierarchy of laws.

[Pat]

1. Sorry, that's just not good enough for something that is put forward as a serious alternative to a constitutional court.

Why not? Can you give any examples of when our current system has produced unwanted consequenses?

2. Gee, I guess that's why it would be useful to, you know, have a constitutional court to settle these things. Funny that.

And why can't the supreme court settle these things?

The supreme court doesn't have the function a constitutional court would have.

1. You still need to produce an example of when our current way of doing things has produced unwanted consequenses.

2. How would a constitutional court be better than what we have now?

[The Brain]

Why not?

2 kap. 23 §

Lag eller annan föreskrift får ej meddelas i strid med Sveriges åtaganden på grund av den europeiska konventionen angående skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna och de grundläggande friheterna. Lag (1994:1468).

This is one of the changes in Regeringsformen, there's a crapload more of them.

All offentlig makt i Sverige utgår från folket.

This is still the first line of the constitution. But it's not true given EU membership.

That's a so called "Portalstadgande" and not to be interpreted literally. And yes it's true lol.

No it's not. I don't think we will make much progress here though.

[The Brain]

We will have to agree to disagree.

[Pat]

I suppose, since you apparently hold your opinion for reasons of ideology and you have no good reason for why it would be a better way of doing things

[Valmy]

We will have to agree to disagree.

Man back in the day these sorts of constitutional debates would have resulted in a battle to the death with long axes.  Vikings are so wimpy these days.

[The Brain]

We will have to agree to disagree.

Man back in the day these sorts of constitutional debates would have resulted in a battle to the death with long axes.  Vikings are so wimpy these days.

Yes.