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Lynn Thoman
Six Ways the Constitution Keeps Leaders in Check with Cass Sunstein (#289)
20 minutes Posted Feb 17, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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The Constitution isn’t just a statement of ideals. It’s a framework for power - built to divide authority so that no single institution can fully control the law. But that design has a consequence: it slows decisions and complicates action. Is that inefficiency a weakness - or the very mechanism that protects liberty? Drawing on his experience at the center of federal rule-making, Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein explores how these constitutional guardrails actually work, why they were de...