nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/34843f344ad38776 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250218s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/34843f344ad38776 doi eng 342 23 Gardiner, Jock Author aut In Search of Honour - A Behavioural “Grundnorm” for Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism Gardiner, Jock Verfassungsblog 2025-02-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier There is a presumption underlying the liberal democratic constitutional project that has been exposed by the Trump administration in its first weeks in office – that formal constitutional structures are all we need to protect against bad political actors. But our entire constitutional system hinges on the very basic idea of people in positions of power doing the right thing. Therefore, I will argue that the behavioural chink in the constitutional chain that needs to be re-discovered is honour. Honour possesses the cultural potency, political currency, and psychological impetuous we need to turn the tide on illiberalism. CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Crisis Constitutional Politics Illiberal Democracy USA USA United States (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd USA Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/honour-liberal-constitutionalism/ raw object