... is corresponding to the statement. Friedrich (1937) believed a constitution should be 'a system of effective regularised restraints on government action, therefore should be a statement of individual rights.'1 This leads to the question, should a constitution include a Bill of Rights like the American constitution's amendments? In America there are freedoms in religion, speech and the press for example, yet Britain has no enforceable Bill of Rights in its constitution. There are essential rights and freedoms in the European Human Rights Act but this is at the highest-level. Initially if Britons think they are violated against, they must appeal to Westminster and further the Law Lords. However, the American Bill of Rights is not definitive: state law is still binding. Homosexual relations in Georgia are outlawed even within a citizen's own home. Appeals against this were rejected as there is no constitutional protection from state law. At the outset, an ...

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