Winning Democracy in America
Forget socialist democracy; by virtue of its Constitution, the United States barely has political democracy. If we take expanding democracy seriously — and if we want to implement sweeping social reforms — we need some serious changes.
1. End the filibuster The Constitution doesn’t specify the rules of order for the House and Senate. In principle, the filibuster is an expression of a senator’s right to debate. The Senate adopted Rule XXII in 1917, allowing two-thirds of the Senate to invoke cloture, bringing a proposal forward to a vote. After 1975, the […]