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10 - Democracy Evolving

The Future of American Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Stephen M. Maurer
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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This chapter briefly reviews the books main arguments and offers limited reforms to improve the Framers design. The deepest challenges involve the characteristically 21st Century debates over COVID, global warming, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Given that even the experts disagree, neither side is likely to persuade the other any time soon. The challenge for the Constitution is to manage the debate for years and even decades. Here the best option is to promote a pragmatic politics that encourages politicians to try different solutions, and just as promptly discard them when they fail. Obvious reforms include safeguards to ensure that key research is never blocked to defend political arguments, and sunset laws that automatically eliminate statutes that fail to show results.

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We Hold These Truths
Updating the Framers' Vision of American Democracy
, pp. 321 - 346
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Democracy Evolving
  • Stephen M. Maurer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: We Hold These Truths
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990646.012
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  • Democracy Evolving
  • Stephen M. Maurer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: We Hold These Truths
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990646.012
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  • Democracy Evolving
  • Stephen M. Maurer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: We Hold These Truths
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990646.012
Available formats
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