There is no Bill of Rights for citizens. The English say they don’t need one. They vigorously defend ‘the traditional liberties of an Englishman’, but since these too have never been written down no-one knows what they are – but everyone is still strongly in favour of them, whatever they may be. Where other countries give their citizens specific ‘rights’, the English take a broader view by assuming they have a right to do anything that is not specifically prohibited. After all (as their reasoning goes) having a list of things you can’t do leaves plenty of scope for the imaginative person to
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