Introduction: What is Backsliding & What Does the Law Have to do With it?
My name is Lizzie Hahn & the purpose of this blog, "Law & Ideologies: The Backslide of Democracy," is to address the problem of the backsliding of democracy in the United States and what the language surrounding the law has to do with it. Throughout this blog, I will do two things in order to further examine the relationship that the language surrounding law means to how our society functions & what that means for individuals. I will both analyze a few prominent supreme court cases and their proceedings, and I will do some short interviews with individuals to see how these concepts are perceived to the people who are directly impacted. I would like to start this blog by defining what I mean by the "backslide of democracy" and what relevance this concept has to language. The annual review of political science defines the phrase " democratic backsliding " as the decline, deterioration, or regression away from the democratic characterist...