Category: U.S. Constitution
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New York Times: “We the People” Loses Appeal to People
The online version of Adam Liptak’s piece in the New York Times on the declining appeal of the U.S. Constitution as a model to foreign countries is here.
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Justice Ginsburg to Egypt: Don’t copy the U.S. Constitution
Let’s say you’re a newly democratizing country – say, Egypt – in the market for a new constitution. What constitutions, if any, should you consider as models in drafting your own? According to Justice Ginsburg, the answer is, maybe Canada or South Africa, or constitutions written after World War II more generally.