Well, constitutions are tools of the current narrative. Consider
Article 9. It's pressed into service depending on the story various
authorities wants to reify. One can consider what's on the paper and
say oh that's pretty cool, but....
On 4/6/16 1:36 PM, gepr wrote:
It seems to me that authoritarianism can be fostered without an
organismic authority (like a king or priest class). Isn't the "rule of
law" or a constitution intended to objectify the authority? If that's
the case, then the psychological manipulation from things like
religion or capital punishment can/could eventually become unnecessary
to achieve an authoritarian state.
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