American democracy is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/dont-venerate-vilify-founders-constitution-july-fourth/
Max Boot notes:
Thomas Jefferson rejected the tendency to “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.” He argued “that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.” …
There is no justice in a political system that gives Republicans six of nine Supreme Court seats even though a Republican has won the popular vote for president only once in the past 30 years. So, too, there is something deeply amiss with a Senate that gives California (population 39.3 million) the same number of seats as Wyoming (population 581,348). The Founders never envisioned such an imbalance between power and population. It undermines any pretense that we are still a democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/dont-venerate-vilify-founders-constitution-july-fourth/
Max Boot notes:
Thomas Jefferson rejected the tendency to “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.” He argued “that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.” …
There is no justice in a political system that gives Republicans six of nine Supreme Court seats even though a Republican has won the popular vote for president only once in the past 30 years. So, too, there is something deeply amiss with a Senate that gives California (population 39.3 million) the same number of seats as Wyoming (population 581,348). The Founders never envisioned such an imbalance between power and population. It undermines any pretense that we are still a democracy.
America Goes Backward for Its 246th Birthday
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-03/supreme-court-rulings-send-america-backward-on-its-246th-birthday-l559hegy
The Supreme Court just set in motion a judicial revolution — and not in the good-for-liberty-and-equality way.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-03/supreme-court-rulings-send-america-backward-on-its-246th-birthday-l559hegy
The Supreme Court just set in motion a judicial revolution — and not in the good-for-liberty-and-equality way.
Nearly every American has a foreboding the country
they love is losing its way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/july-4-america-national-character-decline/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/july-4-america-national-character-decline/
https://www.ft.com/content/af3448b7-3908-4a24-85a1-1ec4dea55390