Thoughts on a crisis

John Ritzema

John Ritzema is a theologian with an interest the relationship between theology and constitutional law THIS VOLUME OF ESSAYS UNDER THEbroad and timely rubric of The Challenges of Democracy neatly complements Jonathan Sumption’s earlier collections Trials of the State (2019) and Law in a Time of Crisis (2021). Once again, Lord Sumption brings legal expertise, a concern for the careful exercise of power, and a weather eye for political, social and cultural faultlines to bear upon modern Britain. Readers will know that he does so from an uncommon combination of intellectual vantage points: a long legal career crowned with membership of the UK Supreme Court, alongside sustained (and prodigious) academic expeditionary warfare, in which Lord Sumption, operating from the Bar and Bench, launched repeated forays into the world of fourteenth-and…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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