• bear_with_a_hammer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    My geography teacher had a nice saying:

    The Constitution is a contract between civilian and government about their obligations to each other.

    Civilian must obey its rules, government on the other hand can choose to not to.

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      1 year ago

      I’d go further and declare that the “social contract” is a mythical story that serves to dominate the masses. The constitution is a body of rules set by a constituent assembly (aka a bunch of elites) which the people have no control over.