Hm, that's a bit of an odd one. Not sure I'd like that much. I've always found reality stranger than fiction; you don't need much fiction because reality is always MUCH funnier/stranger/scarier if you know where to look. Here's one for you, then:
In Guyana, you are legally prohibited from petitioning the Ombudsman if you're dead.
It's in their constitution, I'm serious. I spent my summer reading constitutions from countries most people have never heard of. I have NO idea how one might make use of that, but just trying to *imagine* the situations under which such a provision would be invoked, or the situations which may have caused it to be put into the constitutions in the first place, is certainly kind of fun.
I'm also a bit intrigued by a bit in a failed Albanian draft that gave the constitutional right to have household pets, provided the pets were appropriate for the dwelling and were treated fairly -- thus implying that pets have a constitutional right to fair treatment...
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Re: Canada vs US on liberalism
Date: 2004-11-08 06:54 am (UTC)In Guyana, you are legally prohibited from petitioning the Ombudsman if you're dead.
It's in their constitution, I'm serious. I spent my summer reading constitutions from countries most people have never heard of. I have NO idea how one might make use of that, but just trying to *imagine* the situations under which such a provision would be invoked, or the situations which may have caused it to be put into the constitutions in the first place, is certainly kind of fun.
I'm also a bit intrigued by a bit in a failed Albanian draft that gave the constitutional right to have household pets, provided the pets were appropriate for the dwelling and were treated fairly -- thus implying that pets have a constitutional right to fair treatment...