The Relative Virtues Of An Unwritten Contitution?

Several hours after I wrote my morning post in which I, as so often, dissed the American Constitution,  following the white-hot Brexit debacle in the Britain, I listened to the most estimable Phil who was answering listener comments.  One that he answered included the proposal that Britain adopt a written constitution to replace their unwritten one which he objected to strenuously, making a very good argument for why a written Constitution is dangerous and almost bound to work to prop up an unacceptable status quo - exactly what I have been railing about forever.  

Here's a link to the video at the point where he addresses the comment which also includes the excellent point that looking to history can be useful but not if you don't take a fuller view of what that history meant, the actual nature of how the end came to be.  That is a point which so many people, especially those whose conception of history is derived mainly from movies and TV shows, need to learn.  In a way, it, as well, is relevant to my morning post from yesterday. 

Here's the full video which is just one of the many posts he did yesterday.  I have always found his work to be excellent, even when I might disagree with him on a point to start with, he's good enough at it that he's convinced me of some points.  I am now thinking that he is right about the benefits of an unwritten constitution, though any human scheme of laws is guaranteed to have problems, some of them turning out to be major problems.  

As he points out that there is a possibility of changing bad laws, as we have found it is almost impossible to change some of the very worst things about the American Constitution, the last major reform of it was a result of the Civil War and the reconstruction period in which the Federal government took control of the administration of the states that turned traitor until the fucking Electoral College resulted in the corrupt loser of the election after the corrupt Grant administration ending reconstruction and reimposing white supremacy in the South.   I could go on and on about that.  

I love Phil's take on British politics and he often has intelligent and interesting things to say about things elsewhere, including the United States.