What process amends a constitution while keeping society safe from autocracy? The answer is two majority votes, separated by some years. This is safer than requiring a super-majority in a single vote.
Very interesting. I appreciate the "endless veto" point, but here they are accepting specific circumstances as givens rather that specific implementations of a general architecture:
"The U.S. Constitution is profoundly undemocratic, as generations of abolitionists, socialists, labor activists, and Black radicals have loudly proclaimed. Just as it did a hundred years ago, the document creates an infrastructure for minority rule—a specific and very American brand of white authoritarianism. This is because the Constitution organizes representation around states rather than the principle of one person, one vote. And it fragments and undermines popular authority through endless veto points."
Using states as a basis of a democracy can be done fairly, so long as the power is rebalanced periodically. That the Democrats have refused to rebalance the states, even when the Democrats had the House, the Senate, and the White House, is a specific decision made by the Democrats, it is not part of the Constitution. But I'll write about this in a separate essay.
Thank you for sharing this, it makes for interesting fodder for me to critique.
An interesting article about the problems of the American constitution: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-constitution-and-the-american-left/
Very interesting. I appreciate the "endless veto" point, but here they are accepting specific circumstances as givens rather that specific implementations of a general architecture:
"The U.S. Constitution is profoundly undemocratic, as generations of abolitionists, socialists, labor activists, and Black radicals have loudly proclaimed. Just as it did a hundred years ago, the document creates an infrastructure for minority rule—a specific and very American brand of white authoritarianism. This is because the Constitution organizes representation around states rather than the principle of one person, one vote. And it fragments and undermines popular authority through endless veto points."
Using states as a basis of a democracy can be done fairly, so long as the power is rebalanced periodically. That the Democrats have refused to rebalance the states, even when the Democrats had the House, the Senate, and the White House, is a specific decision made by the Democrats, it is not part of the Constitution. But I'll write about this in a separate essay.
Thank you for sharing this, it makes for interesting fodder for me to critique.