EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Beware thinking of the constitution solely as a legal text
When discussing it in legal terms, we forget that democracy is about much more than the constitution and the Bill of Rights
24 March 2023 - 15:16
The relationship between our country’s constitution and our democracy gets insufficient attention in public debate about our constitutional democracy. That might seem like an odd claim to make at first glance, given the words “constitutional democracy” contain references to both. However, the ways in which we talk about the constitution are often narrow and legalistic, not allowing for broader, critical inquiry into the politics of law and how this foundational legal text relates to our social lives...
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