Amid the outrages surrounding the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, progressive commentator Chris Hayes noted the growing tension between our popular notions about democracy and the undemocratic character of our Constitution. “The logic of popular democracy,” he wrote—our “core principles” of “universal suffrage and majority rule”—when paired with the “actual constitutional…
I During the Presidential Campaign of 1996, in California, President Bill Clinton said that democracy is “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” (October 18, 1996). President Clinton recalled that this phrase was in the Constitution. When later reminded that it was not in that famous…
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