Post by Administrator on Sept 1, 2012 14:44:40 GMT -5
Common law requires an abiding set of shared values and is therefore appropriate only for closed, homogeneous communities, where self interest and the public interest are culturally and genetically intertwined. And statutory law, assuming that some form of democracy exists, is too easily altered to serve as a reliable protection for civil rights. Naturally, then, a constitution, whose laws are much more difficult to amend, is required in a modern, heterogeneous country in order to secure basic civil rights.