That does it for democratic norms on Civics 101, you can listen to all of our episodes at or wherever you get your podcasts. Can't be very important, they can't be we should cast them aside, you know, it's naive to think that those norms are anything real. And therefore, if some leaders don't follow and they. And you have a whole generation of young people thinking, well, those really aren't norms.
What you don't want is a period of our history in which norms are challenged and shattered. In the meantime, these democratic norms that stitch the fabric of our government and politics together should probably still be followed. code, especially if norms are violated in frightening ways. In this case, office holders engaging in sedition or rebellion became a constitutional law.Īfter that, norm was violated, which could potentially happen again, if not through a constitutional amendment, then maybe in U.S. In other words, what might have been considered a democratic norm before the civil war. Well, I think we're learning we're learning getting a kind of crash course right now in the 14th Amendment and post civil war rules that were written into the Constitution that were sort of meant to deal with the aftermath and create incentives for it to avoid another sort of violent breaking apart of country and a leaders acting in a kind of treasonous manner. So I do think that there should be a very strong bipartisan support for for strengthening these norms. If they have, you know, if they have good ideas and are able to get people to vote for them. It's bad for anyone who is invested in a kind of ongoing system in which they can compete for power without risking violence and achieve power. You know, to put proper names on it is bad for Democrats and it's bad for Republicans. We rely on a lot of these norms, but they aren't laws. But I do see a glaring problem here, Hanna. Basically, these are all the little traditions that stitch a functioning democracy together. So democratic norms help us maintain courtesy, keep things on schedule and keep the peace. It's about shifting from a potentially violent arena to a peaceable arena. So, you know, democracy is not about everybody agreeing.
They do help us have a system in which you kind of channel what might be a violent confrontation, conflict into peaceable You mechanisms for adjudicating differences. But not all democratic norms are like that.Ī lot of these norms actually do help keep our system going. It's basically a step above common courtesy and not punching below the belt.
I thank the gentle lady for yielding and congratulate her on her extraordinary leadership. Norms like fancy congressional language during debate that keeps people polite and respectful and let's procedure flow. What does that do for us? Well, it's part of a kind of peaceful transition of power that is part of the very definition of democracy. It's customary for a president to release their tax returns and it's customary for elected officials to eventually accept the results of an election. So these aren't written, but they're customs and traditions like it is customary to address other members of Congress with ridiculously flowery language to not insult a U.S. We wouldn't have thought hard about why that is helpful or why it is anything more than just like showing up at an event until it now is about to be to be violated or not to be followed. And I'm not sure we would have even thought of that as a norm. So, you know, to give an example, it sort of goes without saying in general that the that the outgoing president will attend the inauguration of the incoming president. She's a professor of politics at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. It's not written down rule that is usually often kind of taken for granted and not even noticed as a rule, until it's violated. You'd be teaching people the wrong lesson, the way I think of it, as if everybody started cutting in line at the grocery store, the simple act of paying for your food would dissolve into chaos. Like there's no law that says you must not cut in line at the grocery store, but you just don't do it.Įxactly, because if you did, you'd be a jerk. So these are things that aren't formal laws, but we still expect people to abide by. This show is often about understanding a law or a political event or process something written down and codified.īut the truth is, a lot of the time in the US we do things because that's just the way we do them. You're listening to Civics 101, I'm Hannah McCarthy. Our automated transcription algorithms works with many of the popular audio file formats.Ĭivics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sonix is the best audio automated transcription service in 2021.
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