Many liberal commentators are invoking the Constitution as a bulwark against Donald Trump’s attacks on civil liberties. The truth is, our nation’s antidemocratic founding document has allowed the authoritarian right to entrench its power.
We asked Jacobin contributors for their thoughts.
America’s political institutions are designed to keep democracy at bay. But evidence is mounting that Americans have had enough and want reform.
The National Constitution Center will host the first presidential debate next week between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The event will surely celebrate the US Constitution — but the Constitution isn’t worth celebrating.
As the deep problems with the United States’ antimajoritarian institutions become clearer by the day, a growing chorus of voices is taking aim at our country’s exceptionally undemocratic Constitution.
In Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Hitler and Stalin are one and the same. And the partisans — Jewish fighters included — only encouraged German crimes.
The US Senate is one of the world’s most undemocratic legislatures. It needs to go.
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Tuesday's election showed once again that the Constitution is an impediment to democratic rule.
The Constitution has strangled American democracy for long enough. We need a constituent assembly.
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The Second Amendment isn't the only problem — it's our whole premodern Constitution.
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Elizabeth Warren is pushing things in a progressive direction on the domestic front. But she's far too wedded to US imperialism abroad.