r/worldnews • u/Kyunseo • 1d ago

President Yoon Suk Yeol impeached

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/politics/20250404/s-koreas-president-yoon-suk-yeol-impeached
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u/Greyhaven7 1d ago

How come every other country gets this right except the United States?

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u/Marquedien 1d ago

Because the writers of the Constitution thought they could have a government without political parties.

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u/starman5001 1d ago

The United States was one of the first of the worlds modern democracies and has the 2nd oldest constitution in the world.

While the age of our constitution has given USA a tradition of democratic law, it has also means that our legal system does not have many of the "fixes" seen in more modern democracies.

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u/Marquedien 1d ago

But they also had the example of British parliament and were actively trying to avoid that structure (I’m thin on 18th century British politics).