From a perspective of how hard it is to subdue

Edit: sorry for info-dumping guys. Constitutions are my special imrerest and I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    8 hours ago

    Switzerland here.

    Constitutional amendments are very common and easy here, but they need to go through the people and require a double majority (majority of the people + majority of the states). So the government can’t just abolish democracy, to use the example from your comment, without convincing regular people to agree to it.

    As for the danger of the head of government ignoring the constitution like what Trump is doing in the US, that would be a lot harder here due to our “head of state/government” being a collective of seven people from four parties. So if any of them wants to ignore the constitution, they have to get the others to agree.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 hours ago

      A presidential council is an interesting idea which I know they fascinatingly also a lot of communist countries had