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Constitution

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A constitution of a country is the core legal document superseding all other laws and legal documents.

A constitution has two important functions. First, it provides the ground rules for government and the country to operate. Second, it should provide stability for the democracy by being resilient to subversion by would-be autocrats.

Eligibility

The constitution is responsible for elaborating on the eligibility of people to various offices.

Donald Trump eligibility

Legal scholars have made the case that Donald Trump is ineligible to be a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. The progressive constitution law professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard and the retired conservative judge Michael Luttig wrote in the Atlantic that " the constitution prohibits Trump from ever being president again". Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution says that anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the constitution and then engaged in an insurrection cannot hold office again.

Constitutional amendment

Nothing is immutable and nothing is conceived perfect. For these reasons, a constitution should be amendable. A constitution that can be amended only with great difficulty risks of getting ossified and inadequate for modern times. The constitution of the United States sets very difficult hurdles to pass in order to amend it.

On the other hand, a constitution should not be too easily amended to prevent bad actors from subverting the democracy.

Several autocratic leaders have had constitutional amendments passed so that they could stay in power essentially for life.

American Constitution Society — Facilitating debate of progressive public policy ideas.
Constitution of the Philippines — Adopted by referendum in 1987.
Clark D. Cunningham — Georgia professor of constitutional law, law & ethics.
Laurence Tribe — American constitutional legal scholar.

Constitution

A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.

Constitutional amendment

Most constitutions require that amendments cannot be enacted unless they have passed a special procedure that is more stringent than that required of ordinary legislation.

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