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Clarity no substitute for flexibility, say defenders of Britain's unwritten rulebook

Feel that this is kind of overreach on the part of the -- of the democratic or legislative branch of the israeli government in terms of curtailing the court's power? >> israel has an unusual constitutional system of checks and balances and separation of powers an the israeli supreme court plays a singular very important role as a primary check on the government's power. in the united states, we have several checks and balances. we have two houses of government, both the house in congress and the senate. we have a separation between the executive and the legislative branches and we have a writt...

We have a separation between the executive and the legislative branches and we have a written constitution that's really hard to change. none of thosz things exist in israel. there is one house of parliament, the knesset. it is very much connected to the executive branch because the prime minister leads the party that rules the guesset and there isn't a written constitution, the ordinary majority of parliament can change what are called basic laws that have a kind of con sstitutional statusn israel and for those reasons the israeli supreme court as a protector of minority rights and the check ...

Huge protests that are rocking israel at the moment. as we speak, the right-wing government in israel today mounting an effective takeover of the judiciary in that country. which will not only be very convenient for their prime minister who is under criminal indictment, but will also broadly remove the ability of the courts to constrain the government in lots of important ways. not a written constitution, israel has no written constitution the court ability to constrain the government is effectively the only constraint on the government. and if they will get rid of that, while the government w...

From the blog of Rachel L. Suggs at The Times of Israel