Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
Disabled Alaskan Monarchist doomer
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Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
6d ago
It also overlooks constitutional crisis in the sense where the tension between the constitution-as-written and the constitution-as-applied is too great, and when the illusion finally drops, it's a disaster.
This is the sense I encounter a lot, but I don't understand how it constitutes a disaster, rather than simply clarifying that "the constitution-as-applied" is the actual (small-c) constitution, the actual way our government works and will continue to work, and that "the constitution-as-written" is entirely some old dead piece of paper with no power whatsoever.
Except for one thing you don't list here: as they say, it takes two to tango.
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