Formal entrenchment is almost always easier to identify than functional entrenchment.

Evidence

Despite their general substitutability, formal entrenchment does appear to differ from functional entrenchment in one important way: it will almost always be easier to identify. — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 401

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s framework: why ideologies entrenched formally become targets of explicit contestation while functionally embedded ones evade detection. — connects to: Functional entrenchment is hard to police because policy and entrenchment motives overlap inextricably — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 427

Broader Connections

• Functional entrenchment is hard to police because policy and entrenchment motives overlap inextricably #expands (0.85) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 427