POLS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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The bill of rights is just as important to politics today as the constitutionally defined governing bodies. Their clauses do not influence any public policy. However, in" constitutionalizing" politics, the bill of rights was crucial: finding approval for a policy requires more than public or legislative majorities, it requires rational integrity, too. What that means is that while americans vociferously disagree on certain political topics, they share a notion of disagreement: by reference to the. It is not basically the argument whether or not a plan is fair or acceptable gun control, prohibition of alcohol, enabling same-sex marriages. Everyday political debate in no european nation is so pervaded by the language of constitutional law. Nor is any nation comparable in the zeal with which ordinary americans routinely invoke their constitutional rights to justify their acts (or to govern acts which they condemn as unacceptable).
