The Making and Breaking of Constitutions
With the United States and the United Kingdom on the verge, if not already in the throes, of constitutional crises, understanding the dynamics of constitutional change at times of political tumult has become an urgent necessity. A new book by renowned legal scholar Bruce Ackerman offers a fresh look at how constitutions evolve and break down over time.
PARIS – Longstanding constitutions are facing unprecedented challenges across the democratic world. And nowhere is the assault on constitutional principles and the rule of law more pronounced than in the world’s oldest democracy, the United States, where President Donald Trump is trying to recast the political order in his own authoritarian populist image.