I think it's fair to ask whether the american constitution is and buchanan thought that n the calculus of consent. It was probably important as a focal point, but it was not causal. I'm just pretty confident that they will be because we're really bad at this. So i don't care. Ad wern gongto leve alone. The burden of proof has to be on you. But if you don't know, think something really bad might very well happen.
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.