#constitutionalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up. More here: https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/on-guardrails #Constitutionalism
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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up. More here: https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/on-guardrails #Constitutionalism
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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up. More here: https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/on-guardrails #Constitutionalism
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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up. More here: https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/on-guardrails #Constitutionalism
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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up. More here: https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/on-guardrails #Constitutionalism
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#Flagism vs #Constitutionalism Definitely not product, but still not a bad read. One of the inputs into the book I guess I lied about. The release date. LOL. That is a must turn now book.
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The essence of #constitutionalism is based on letting our enemies live as they see fit so that they let us live as we like. Please check out the free weekly essay on my personal blog after the jump! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/rawls-vs-schmitt
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The essence of #constitutionalism is based on letting our enemies live as they see fit so that they let us live as we like. Please check out the free weekly essay on my personal blog after the jump! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/rawls-vs-schmitt
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The essence of #constitutionalism is based on letting our enemies live as they see fit so that they let us live as we like. Please check out the free weekly essay on my personal blog after the jump! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/rawls-vs-schmitt
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The essence of #constitutionalism is based on letting our enemies live as they see fit so that they let us live as we like. Please check out the free weekly essay on my personal blog after the jump! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/rawls-vs-schmitt
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The essence of #constitutionalism is based on letting our enemies live as they see fit so that they let us live as we like. Please check out the free weekly essay on my personal blog after the jump! https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/rawls-vs-schmitt
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📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed30224
#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica
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📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed30224
#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica
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📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed30224
#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica
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📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed30224
#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica
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📖 No âmbito de uma estadia de investigação no IHC, Carlos Eduardo França de Oliveira publicou o artigo "Constitucionalismo e poder eleitoral em Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira".
🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-463338ed30224
#Histodons #PoderesDoEstado #Constituição #SilvestrePinheiroFerreira #DemocraciaLiberal #LiberalDemocracy #Elections #Constitutionalism #Eleições #Democracia #ElectoralPower #PoderEleitoral #LiberalismoPortuguês #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica
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#constitutionalism
Write to me, not only am I a constitutionalist (but because of my military mind/world((training and experience)) I can help many people with what they are on this app for. I hope the GOD I AM WHO I AM directs you to talk to me ((and supports whatever relationship/experience((case management((services) I can provide. God bless -
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#MENAdoc:
"Towards #constitutionalism for the Republic of #Armenia" by Syuzanna Vasilyan[Buenos Aires: Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, 2002]
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Towards #constitutionalism for the Republic of #Armenia" by Syuzanna Vasilyan[Buenos Aires: Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, 2002]
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@mpfpr delivers a workshop in 🇲🇷 on " #Constitutionalism and Political Party Regulation: Comparative Experiences," engaging legal experts, policymakers, and scholars.
Generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt -
@mpfpr delivers a workshop in 🇲🇷 on " #Constitutionalism and Political Party Regulation: Comparative Experiences," engaging legal experts, policymakers, and scholars.
Generously funded by @AuswaertigesAmt -
"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.
Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.
Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism
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"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.
Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.
Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism
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"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.
Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.
Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism
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"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.
Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.
Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism
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"This is about the separation of powers, not a specific policy. Maybe you think that TikTok should remain online or that the U.S.A.I.D. shutdown makes sense because the government should spend more on Americans and less on foreign aid. But other government branches’ lack of pushback sets a precedent that Trump can act like a king.
Maybe next time he’d undo the Education Department, vaccine programs or food stamps. Or his administration could repurpose federal funds to imprison unauthorized migrants in detention camps. It could, in a far-fetched scenario, take possession of the Gaza Strip. Normally, these are policies on which Congress must get a say.
Nyhan’s research team has surveyed political scientists at American universities about how worried they are right now. During most of Trump’s first term, the respondents’ opinions about the health of our democracy were largely stable. But their confidence has plunged since Trump’s second inauguration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/briefing/a-constitutional-crisis.html
#USA #Trump #USConstitution #Democracy #ChecksAndBalances #Constitutionalism
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#Constitutionalism tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20196.pdf
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#Constitutionalism tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20196.pdf
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#Constitutionalism tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20196.pdf
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#Constitutionalism tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20196.pdf
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#Constitutionalism tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 196. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 06.11.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20196.pdf
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#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing #清 government.
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#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing #清 government.
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#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing #清 government.
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#OTD in 1911 #ModernChina: Liang Qichao #梁啟超, Sun Hongyi 孫洪伊 (1872–1936), Lei Fen 雷奮 (1871–1919), and others founded the Friends of #Constitutionalism Association #憲友會 in #Beijing #北京 which advocated a #ConstitutionalMonarchy for the westering #Qing #清 government.
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#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."
https://www.ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-49ab-9bbb-9bfeccbaf063
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#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."
https://www.ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-49ab-9bbb-9bfeccbaf063
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#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."
https://www.ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-49ab-9bbb-9bfeccbaf063
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#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."
https://www.ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-49ab-9bbb-9bfeccbaf063
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#AI #Algorithms #Constitutionalism: "People aren’t perfect. Neither ethics training for AI engineers nor legislation by woefully uninformed politicians can change that simple truth. I don’t need to assume that Big Tech chief executives are bad actors or that large companies are malevolent to understand that what is in their self-interest is not always in mine. The framers of the US Constitution recognised this simple truth and sought to leverage human nature for a greater good. The Constitution didn’t simply assume people would always act towards that greater good. Instead it defined a dynamic mechanism — self-interest and the balance of power — that would force compromise and good governance. Its vision of treating people as real actors rather than better angels produced one of the greatest frameworks for governance in history."
https://www.ft.com/content/b16fab3e-7f19-49ab-9bbb-9bfeccbaf063
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Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.
Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:
The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.
These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).
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Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.
Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:
The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.
These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).
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Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.
Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:
The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.
These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).
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Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.
Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:
The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.
These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).
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Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.
Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:
The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.
These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).
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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
