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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Ended an evening run early because 99% humidity feels like 99, not 33. The sun hasn’t even been out today 🥵

Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Looking forward to Sam Moyn’s talk “Saving Liberalism from Crisis” tomorrow night at Yale-NUS College. Details and how to register to attend (in person or by zoom) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/yale-nus-l...

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Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs: Saving Liberalism from Crisis

Join us as Professor Samuel Moyn talks about Saving Liberalism from Crisis at the Yale-NUS College Hall on 7 March, 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM.

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Some recent thought-provoking work on militant democracy in the United States, related to section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

For those susceptible to scotus’ gaslighting about how agencies are antidemocratic tyrants, I submit to you the following forthcoming shortly in Legal Theory

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Quinta Jurecic on how Article 14.3 represents an early form of militant democracy. And how democracy needs mechanisms to restrict the rights of popular antidemocrats, unless we think democracy is just mob rule essentially.

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

For me, Carl Schmitt was an unexpected (long) detour on my way through Neumann and Kirchheimer

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

My book lays out a new normative theory for defending constitutional democracy against legal revolutionary tactics. It defends the use of militant defenses of democracy, like the Art 67 “positive” vote of no confidence. It argues future constitutions should be designed that way

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Only antidemocrats win when democratic government is decapitated during a crisis. Constitutions should be designed to help democracy better defend itself against internal antidemocrats.

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Whatever we think about McCarthy (I won’t shed any tears for him), his ouster paralyzes the US House until a successor is chosen - and US Congress has 40 days to avert a government shutdown (among its other problems)

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

In Weimar’s closing days, antidemocratic parties formed a “negative majority”. They used the vote of no confidence to cripple the government and delegitimate democracy in the eyes of ordinary voters

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Weimar jurists warned about extremists’ use of the vote of no confidence to decapitate a gov’t and worsen a crisis. Their theories later led to the Art. 67 “positive vote of no confidence” in the German Basic Law: a no confidence vote passes only if a successor is also elected

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

There is a precedent for Kevin McCarthy’s ouster in Weimar Germany. In my new book ‘Democracy despite Itself’, forthcoming with OUP, I explore the implications of that precedent and how to defend democracy against internal enemies

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Benjamin A. Schupmann @bas2181.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Looking forward to being a part of THE German Studies Association’s 2023 Conference. I’ll be a part of the workshop on ‘Militant Democracy: Then and Now’. I’ll present a paper on Otto Kirchheimer and Militant Democracy

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