i have spent ten minutes on a basket ball. Cort listening to two law professors arguing whether a fowl requires intent. It's so fantastic, but i don't want to do it again. Somehow monny pison forgot to that'sbutii, i'm entirely serious. If you say, ok, everything's up for grabs, go argue about it, we will. And a lot of powerful interest will try to exert, through back channels, influence on the way that these rules are created. The reason we want constitutions is to enable politics. Just fabulous. We can organize society that way. But when the losers do not accept it as legitimate, then politics breaks down into anarchy
More than we need rules, argues Michael Munger, we need rules about the rules. So does the United States need a new Constitution? Listen as the Duke University economist and political scientist talks to host Russ Roberts about public choice, consenting to coercion, and whether constitutions matter.