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> the executive ... hasn't devolved into a dictatorship simply because of tradition and popular unease at that route > I'm not really sure to what extent a cons
by artificialLimbs 6y ago
> the executive ... hasn't devolved into a dictatorship simply because of tradition and popular unease at that route
> I'm not really sure to what extent a constitution really can or should protect against popular despotism
Article II Section 1 of the Constitution?
- emn13 6y agoI was trying to get across the point that democratic freedoms necessarily imply the freedom to make mistakes; at best you can slow them down and make em less likely by historical happenstance. And as pointed out, no legal document matters if enough popular sentiment opposes it; people just throw it out (it's happened in other countries before). So perhaps this benchmark is too high a bar.