Does the Constitution protect the institutions of government?
1 Answer
How those institutions interact with each other and the Constitution is probably as important as the constitution itself.
Explanation:
A separate Judiciary is only separate if kept that way. It is too easy to circumvent a Constitution if a nation's institutions do not defend and preserve it.
In China the one party system makes the Party a priority over all other aspects of Government including the Constitution.
In Britain the "Constitution" is quite a number of pieces of Legislation that can be flexibly interpreted depending on the situation. It is very dependent on the institutions of Government upholding the principals of it.
A subversive government can find its way around the best written Constitution if the institutions of Government aren't able to defend it.
A government must be able to interact with the institutions of government and the Constitution to legally achieve its goals.
