Response to overseas commentators

I am extremely grateful to the four distinguished lawyers from South Africa, Italy, India, and Germany who have contributed to this issue and to the editors for soliciting their contributions. This journal is dedicated to improving global conversations about the central substantive and procedural issues of constitutional law, and the range and power of these articles is itself ample evidence of the soundness and importance of that project. In this response I cannot hope even to identify, let alone reply to, all the fascinating issues the commentators have raised. I therefore take up, principally, questions and objections about my own work in an attempt to continue the debate the comments begin. My comments in response to the different contributions vary in length for that reason alone.