I have long argued that we have the modalities we do because the Anglo-Americans took the forms of argument at common law and superimposed these on the state when they imposed a written, limiting constitution on the state.

XREF: Connects to the broader Anglophone legal-institutional lineage—how shared procedural traditions shaped distinct constitutional frameworks across former British colonies.

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