http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190324-203400-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/how-to-save-a-constitutional-democracy-a-comment-by-sujit-choudhry/ How to Save a Constitutional Democracy: a Comment by SUJIT CHOUDHRY Choudhry, Sujit eng 2019-03-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarianism Democratic Backsliding Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq’s "How to Save a Constitutional Democracy" is a terrific book. In this comment, I address three issues: the important moment the book marks on the value of the comparative method to the study of American constitutionalism; the insights offered by this method to the risk of democratic erosion in the United States and how those risks might be mitigated; and the need to give greater weight than Ginsburg and Huq do to the role of federalism to counter democratic erosion.