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 ...

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My review of Adrian Vermeule's new book Common Good Constitutionalism in the Claremont Review of Books is now posted. You can download it here. There was more in the ...

Constitutional debates are rarely about law alone. They are, more often than not, arguments about power, time, and the uneasy ...

“Here are a few things the framers did not know about: World War II. DNA. Sexting. Airplanes. The atom. Television. Medicare. Collateralized debt obligations. The germ theory of disease. Miniskirts.

Now available online from the spring 2012 issue of the Claremont Review of Books is an excellent essay by University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser that aims to recover the concept ...

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 ...

This Article argues that in order to understand the constitutional categories of a polity governed by Confucian norms, we must seize upon the idea of ritual as the key concept. By describing the ...

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, ...

In 2023, Mark Tushnet and Aaron Belkin published an "Open Letter to the Biden Administration on Popular Constitutionalism" making recommendations on how the Biden Administration should respond to the ...

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the adoption of Bangladesh Constitution provides an opportunity to examine whether the country practised constitutionalism since the constitution came into ...

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.