Tag: constitutional moments
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Patrick O’Brien: The Democratic Legitimacy of Changing Your Mind: A Response to Richard Ekins
In his post of last week, Richard Ekins argues that political and legal elites should resist the urge to ‘treat other voters as fools or monsters or deny the outcome of the fair and legitimate decision-making process which they did not otherwise contest’. The many and varied legal and political arguments offering ways to soften,…
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Mark Elliott: A lack of constitutional imagination lies at the heart of the Scottish independence debate
Opinion polls suggesting that the pro-independence campaign in Scotland may have taken a narrow lead have had an electrifying effect, causing the mainstream UK media and political establishment — both of which have been curiously disengaged from the debate so far — to sit up and take notice. The point of this post is not to make the case…