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The challenges faced by the liberal democratic model of government in the twenty-first century have made constitutional theory into an urgent topic of global concern. Both the second Iraq war and the revolutions of the Arab Spring frustrated hopes of an easy global trajectory toward liberal democracy. If there was the hope that liberation would mean the establishment of liberal constitutional norms, the result has been that emancipation from tyranny does not naturally lead in a particular political direction. Meanwhile, established liberal democracies, from the United States to Europe to India, are facing upheavals that have prompted many to question…