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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by artificialLimbs on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:48PM (#25850263)
> the executive ... hasn't devolved into a dictatorship simply because of tradition and popular unease at that route > I'm not really sure to what extent a constitution really can or should protect against popular despotism

Article II Section 1 of the Constitution?

Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by emn13 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:11PM (#25850571)
I was trying to get across the point that democratic freedoms necessarily imply the freedom to make mistakes; at best you can slow them down and make em less likely by historical happenstance. And as pointed out, no legal document matters if enough popular sentiment opposes it; people just throw it out (it's happened in other countries before). So perhaps this benchmark is too high a bar.