Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: Political Opposition

  • Democratic Erosion and Militant Democracy

    –Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq, The University of Chicago Law School In 1937, the German political scientist Karl Loewenstein published a two-part article that coined the term militant democracy.[1]  Concerned with the inadequate democratic response to the rising threat of fascism, he called for a set of legislative and legal techniques that would allow democracy…