I know it's supposed to be fair racial discrimination
Dave....did you read that one out loud.

I think you are right to question the whole deal. For me there is no fairness in the either of these two issues. No fair = flawed system.

I think we could go a long way by fixing the first set of problems you sited.

Representatives elected by the people and then remain accountable to the people who put them there is in my mind a democratic vote.

Politicians acting in line with their electoral needs rather than party needs is what we need - or we have a one party dictatorship which is what we are seeing.

We are told we have this great constitution and I am sure it is a really difficult thing to balance it for all - but like you have highlighted in two areas, which for me are not fine even in isolation, I am sure there are many more.
When it can be used to help get a tin pot dictator or legal heads away from their duties and apparent crimes or plastic pot dictators to run towns and cities into the ground under an open socialist or do nothing banner, then there is something fundamentally wrong with it.

I think human rights and constitutions are no different than the BS mission and vision statements that large corporation discuss and then chuck back into a dirty cupboard to be hauled out every time they have a finger pointed at them.

If we could put the amount of energy into building this country and sorting out corrupt and inept politicians, rather than building a pile of words that seem to favour a few and can be changed when not liked; we will become a great nation.

Our constitution just joins the pile of many 'plans' that these leaders have, in what must be huge store rooms at this stage. When one of them actually opens a plan and starts to follow it and DO STUFF PROPERLY, then we can start talking about what a fair constitution should look like.

At this stage I see this subject of a constitution as a diversion while the criminals raid our pockets, our minds, and our souls as they take the country into an emerging fourth world country.