Rights & The Ideal Constitution, Jonathan Sumption - The Reith Lectures, 15 June 2019

Jonathan Sumption assesses the US and UK’s constitutional models. He describes Britain's unwritten constitution as a political institution. The US Constitution is by contrast essentially a legal document.

This has led Americans to address what should be political questions – such as the right to abortion – via the courts, rather than through politics.

Britain, Lord Sumption argues, should learn from the United States be careful about which rights should be put beyond democratic choice.

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The programme is recorded in front of an audience at George Washington University in Washington DC.

This Reith Lecture is:
presented and chaired by Anita Anand
produced by Jim Frank
Editor: Hugh Levinson

The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first Director-General.

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