Introduction : explaining legal change and entrenchment -- Innovation and democracy : legal change in ancient Athens -- Legislation and law reform in seventeenth-century England -- Fallibility and foundations in the U.S. Constitution -- Protecting democracy and dignity in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion : defending democracy against entrenchment
Summary
This book argues against the view that important laws should be impossible to change
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index
