https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Constitutionalism-and-Democracy https://booksandideas.net/Constitutionalism-and-Democracy 2015-05-11T07:30:00Z text/html en Dominique Rousseau democracy Constitution law Constitutional Council of France Florence Gould Foundation <p>How can it be legitimate for a judge to overturn a law passed by the people's representatives? Isn't that judge interfering with majority rule? The French jurist Dominique Rousseau shows that a constitution is not a barrier to democratic expression, but an opportunity for that expression to become richer and deeper.</p>