The Constitution’s Political Deficit
Posted 206 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff
There is a worrisome democratic deficit in our constitutional scheme, as well as two other problems that impact detrimentally our democratic commitments: a political deficit and a legal deficit. Our current dilemma exists not only because our written Constitution clearly tilts against representative democracy; our constitutional practices also tilt against politics, democratic or otherwise, and the ordinary law – legislation – that is its product.
