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Michael Munger on Constitutions

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The Question Is, Can You Consent To The Results?

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The question is not whether you consent to the outcome. The question is whether you consented to the rule by which the outcome was arrived at. Let's have a thing called a constitution, which is a set of rules about rules. That is, it is the way that we will make decisions. It's not the decisions itself. Although many constitutions are full of conclusions about the way things be. A good constitution,. by this reasoning, is rules about rules, were creating decision processes. because deciding how to decide is the key.

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