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A comparative constitutional lawyer on why amendment procedure matters more than any single clause.
Hana Sato7/14/202611 min read
A comparative constitutional lawyer on why amendment procedure matters more than any single clause.
On amendment procedure
“The text people argue about is rarely the part that decides outcomes. What decides outcomes is how hard it is to change the text, and who has to agree.”
On expert roles in governance
“An expert who tells you how to vote has stopped being useful as an expert. The job is to make the tradeoff visible, then leave.”
Sources and references
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Author
Hana Sato
Research fellow
Writing for the Institute on process and method.