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  • 27 - The Story of the Constitution

  • from Part V - The Imagined Order of the Constitution
  • Wim Voermans, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    The Story of Constitutions
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 314-321

  • Summary

    This chapter is more or less a conclusion of all the foregoing chapters: it shows how we humans are storytellers and convey meaning, values, experiences and insights by storytelling. And that is what constitutions actually are: stories of how we best relate to one another in political societies, and how we should behave (stories about morality, justice and the law). Through constitutions we communicate and establish paths for (optimal) human cooperation, in credible, convincing, even compelling ways - packed together with methods (instruments) for reaffirmation.