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Ep 163: Who Broke Our Republic?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Liberal Constitution

I would still hold that it's an imposition because while I agree about the nobility of intent and also the pedagogical nature of the constitution which Madhav writes about so well in his book. But regardless of that the argument could be made that society wasn't quite like that wasn't remotely as liberal, he says. It then brings up the paradox that the liberal constitution in its liberality enabled the illiberal society to sort of rise up against it and take over the politics of the day. Does that make any kind of sense to you? Yeah, it makes perfect sense because the rise of the liberal is only made possible by a liberal constitution.

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