The foundations of democratic dualism: Why constitutional politics and ordinary politics are different

Formal constitution-making is now an increasingly common phenomenon. But how should we understand the politics of constitutional lawmaking—what we call constitutional politics? Should it be structured differently from ordinary politics? As a descriptive matter, there seem to be important differences between constitutional and ordinary lawmaking. Constitutional lawmaking makes entrenched rules about rules and determines the institutional landscape of the state while ordinary lawmaking formulates non-entrenched rules within rules.