'The idea of elected citizens deliberating and arguing over what kind of constitution and court system they want—as messy as the process may be—seems an appealing alternative.'
in its current incarnation to be in thrall to the right and hostile toward the very liberal-democratic values it claims to safeguard.
Especially telling examples include the fact that residents of the national capital are denied federal legislative representation, the last two Republican presidents entered office despite losing the popular vote, and unelected, lifetime-appointed justices—who claim nonpartisanship but were nominated precisely to promote a partisan agenda—have recently gone on a spree of striking down popular legislation based on highly idiosyncratic, minoritarian, and dubious legal “philosophies.
Indeed, though it has long weaponized the phrase “judicial activism” against its opponents, the right has spared no effort in its attempts to reshape the country’s political-legal institutions in its own image and constrain the popular will. : “I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believed that certain issues are just settled.”tepid and unassured
Contrary to the understandings of the Democratic Party leadership, Chile’s upcoming constitutional referendum provides a clear reminder of what is at stake vis-à-vis the establishment and the functioning of legal, political, and institutional orders.During the October 2020 national plebiscite, nearly 80 percent of Chileans voted in favor both of drafting a new constitution and of awarding authority to do so to a citizens’ assembly, whose members were chosen by a subsequent popular vote.
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