Ferdinand Mount Quotes
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
Mount, Ferdinand. The British Constitution Now: Recovery or Decline? Heinemann, 1992.
When people see the process as unfair and insensitive to minority rights and issues— rammed through by one group which wants to dictate how the rest should live, they never even reach the point of considering carefully the actual language and making compromises with that. They just oppose the constitution in toto usually by finding the 2 or 3 most egregious clauses and harping on those with no attempt to improve them and rejecting the entire constitution.
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, FRSL, is a British writer, novelist, and columnist for The Sunday Times, as well as a political commentator.
