Erwin Chemerinsky No Democracy Lasts Forever (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: No Democracy Lasts ForeverCondition: NewSubtitle: How the Constitution Threatens the United StatesISBN-10: 1324091584EAN: 9781324091585ISBN: 9781324091585Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/27/2024Description: Deeply troubled by the US Constitution’s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that the nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now facing American democracy. Pointing out that just fifteen of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed, Chemerinsky contends that the very nature of our polarisation results from the Constitution’s “bad bones”, which have created a government that no longer works or has the confidence of the public. Yet political Armageddon can still be avoided, Chemerinsky writes, if a new constitutional convention is empowered to replace the Constitution of 1787, much as the Founding Fathers replaced the outdated Articles of Confederation. If this isn’t possible, Americans must give serious thought to forms of secession—including a United States structured like the European Union—based on a recognition that what divides the United States is, in fact, greater than what unites it.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 236mmItem Length: 160mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 477gAuthor: Erwin ChemerinskyGenre: HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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