Friday, June 8, 2012

Framed : Six Questions for Sanford Levinson—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

Framed : Six Questions for Sanford Levinson—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine): "One can understand their reluctance. A central trope of the critical literature, such as Robert Dahl’s How Democratic is the American Constitution?—answer: not very—is that nothing can be done to cure the ills, given the most truly dreadful part of the Constitution: Article V, the amendment provision. Practically speaking, it is next to impossible to amend the Constitution with regard to anything truly important."

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I wish more liberals were forthright about their contempt for the constitution. I think that this would be more fruitful conversation than everyone claiming the constitution evolved to their current policy preferences.

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