Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16.
Abstract: The idea of an “Internet Bill of Rights” is by no means a new one: in fact, serious efforts to draft such a document can be traced at least as far back as the mid-1990s. Though the form, ...
Last year, Hugo Chavez amended Venezuela's constitution and abolished term limits. The entire business was a bit odd, but not because the constitution was changed, which is quite common in Latin ...
Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question ...
This article discusses two contrasting tendencies in thought about postcommunist experiments with constitutionalism and the rule of law: institutional optimism and cultural pessimism. The first ...
Reaffirming faith on Constitutionalism, this year, law day was re-christened as Constitution Day. Constitution is a document, which dictates the past, defines the present and shapes the future of the ...
The great 17th century constitutionalist John Selden was not a man of the cloth but he was convinced that religion served as the basis of societal order. Unlike his contemporary Thomas Hobbes, who ...
Originalists and living constitutionalists have been hammering away at each other for decades. But, up until recently, most living constitutionalists at least agreed that originalism qualifies as a ...
The ambitious project of constitutional restoration that has occupied a portion of the American Right for generations now finds itself at a peculiar crossroads. On the one hand, the effort to ...
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court Amin-ud-Din Khan expressed hope that the FCC will ...
Environmental constitutionalism has become a widespread phenomenon: this is where environmental rights and obligations are incorporated into national constitutions. But now a group of nations is ...
Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez directs entrepreneurial development programs for the Sucre municipal government in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a graduate of Carleton College and the Harvard Kennedy School.