How does our democracy work?

This book aims to demonstrate how the United States Supreme Court has worked to enhance democracy, protect rights and freedoms, defend the Constitution, and strengthen the rule of law, as this is the greatest challenge to its role in American life. The court does not aspire — and should not aspire — to declare the truth about the meanings of the Constitution, but also to make the law a "living truth" that the country complies with and that drives its social practices. The book takes us on a long journey through the history of the court, during which we observe that development was not on a single evolutionary path, but was subjected to setbacks in which the court sometimes issued poor rulings, and at other times the executive branch refused to enforce its rulings or was unable to do so. But in the end, only the correct became established, and the texts of the Constitution and the rulings of the Supreme Court became the rule that no one dares to violate or fail to abide by. Americans have understood — over more than two hundred years — that in order to enjoy legal protection, they must follow the law even if they disagree with it. The author explained that this is not about the texts themselves, but about citizens’ awareness, which is created through civic education and the teaching of rights and freedoms principles, and nurtured by sharing experiences and practice, the balance of powers and each branch’s role in enforcing the limits of the others, and an unwavering belief in democracy and its necessity.