… is from page 199 of David Mamet’s 2022 book, Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch:
The Constitution exists not to provide “unity” but to assert and demand the subjugation of unbridled interest to previously agreed-upon laws (and so, perceived or not, to the underlying customs upon which these laws are based).
DBx: Yes.
What Mamet here calls “laws” are what the late Nobel-laureate economist James Buchanan and others who work in the tradition of the Virginia School of Political Economy call “constitutional rules.”
