text: brissy,
  
  You must really think that the world is going to hell in a handbasket then because Canada's constitution has been the most borrowed from in recent decades by nations revising their constitutions, particularly post Soviet bloc nations.
  
  As to frexibility, the Canadian constitution has been able to accommodate both the necessary concentration of jurisdiction in the central government during war and crisis and broad jurisdictional decentralisation to the Provinces more recently.