A reminder that, in and of itself, constitutionalism is inherently conservative and, given the circumstances, reactionary or even authoritarian.
A reminder that constitutional *democracy* is built upon *democratic* constitutionalism; otherwise it's not a democracy at all
A reminder that constitutional *democracy* is built upon *democratic* constitutionalism; otherwise it's not a democracy at all
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Laurence H. Tribe
“What follows is a step-by-step account of how Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Democracy knows no status quo. Everything is up for grabs if the people wish so.
Constitutional democracy (and democratic constitutionalism) combine both: save some basic structures of the status quo that are protected >
Constitutionalism without democracy is blind: it may protect any given status quo: be it the will of the Füher, or the neoliberal economic orthodoxy. (The latter being the case with the EU which, despite being a constitutional giant, is a democratic dwarf)
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Italy_2020#s7
I'm just saying that this is true exactly because they are *democratic* constitutions. And the more democratic they are the better. (The Italian being one of the most democratic: a republic founded on labour)
I'm concerned about how democratic is the governmental system it establishes.
I kind of lost you.
I'm basically saying that constitutionalism without democracy is, well, undemocratic, which should be pretty much self-evident