Video of the Huffington Post Live Discussion on Democracy and Constitutionalism in Egypt

A video of the Huffington Post Live panel discussion on constitutionalism, democracy, and the situation in Egypt is now available here. I was one of four participants. The others were Prof. Stanley Katz of Princeton, Zaid Al-Ali – an expert on constitutional design in the Arab world, and Daniel Landsberg-Rodriguez. I tried to emphasize two points that the other panelists didn’t fully consider: that a good constitution must be enforceable and that enforceability is often tougher than good drafting, and that the illiberal nature of majority public opinion in Egypt creates some painful tradeoffs between democracy and other liberal values.

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