Six Ways the Constitution Keeps Leaders in Check with Cass Sunstein (#289)

About this episode

Cass Sunstein discusses how the Constitution serves as a framework for power and its implications for leadership and decision-making.

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...

People in this episode

Host: Lynn Thoman

Guest: Cass Sunstein

Topics covered

• Constitution
• leadership
• government
• law
• liberty
• federal rule-making

Keywords

• Constitution
• leadership
• authority
• law
• liberty
• federal rule-making
• government

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Law School

Books & works: The Constitution

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