@RaymondPierreL3@australianpolitics Yes, constitutional protections depend on governments and independent courts upholding the constitution.
And autocratic governments don’t tend to be good at that. But then, they also don’t tend to be good at upholding other parts of the constitution, such as free and fair elections.
So if your government has slid that far towards dictatorship, nothing in the constitution will help.
Where it can help is with overreach by governments in democratic countries. It provides a mechanism where people can go to the High Court (or its equivalent) to get the law overturned.
@ajsadauskas@australianpolitics yes of course, provided society has not been divided by fascist prop-agit in which case a country hang in balance between democracy and autocracy (fascism). Whichever way you look at it, the only reliable weapon against fascism is unionism. A strong unionised workforce is too much power for fascists to take on and the reason why right-wing politics do not like unions. But even this is no guarantee given what history tells us about the fall out from Bolshevik revolutions.
@RaymondPierreL3 @australianpolitics Yes, constitutional protections depend on governments and independent courts upholding the constitution.
And autocratic governments don’t tend to be good at that. But then, they also don’t tend to be good at upholding other parts of the constitution, such as free and fair elections.
So if your government has slid that far towards dictatorship, nothing in the constitution will help.
Where it can help is with overreach by governments in democratic countries. It provides a mechanism where people can go to the High Court (or its equivalent) to get the law overturned.
@ajsadauskas @australianpolitics yes of course, provided society has not been divided by fascist prop-agit in which case a country hang in balance between democracy and autocracy (fascism). Whichever way you look at it, the only reliable weapon against fascism is unionism. A strong unionised workforce is too much power for fascists to take on and the reason why right-wing politics do not like unions. But even this is no guarantee given what history tells us about the fall out from Bolshevik revolutions.