No Democracy Lasts Forever

How the Constitution Threatens the United States

Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law)

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Norton
10 September 2024

History; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Constitution: government & the state; Constitutional & administrative law

"Deeply troubled by the Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now facing American democracy. Pointing out that just fifteen of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed, Chemerinsky contends that the very nature of our polarization results from the Constitution's ""bad bones,"" which have created a government that no longer works or has the confidence of the public. Yet political armageddon can still be avoided, Chemerinsky writes, if a new constitutional convention is empowered to replace the Constitution of 1787, much as the Founding Fathers replaced the outdated Articles of Confederation. If this isn't possible, Americans must give serious thought to forms of secession-including a United States structured like the European Union-based on a recognition that what divides us as a country is, in fact, greater than what unites us."

By: Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California Berkeley School of Law)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 477g
ISBN: 9781324091585
ISBN 10: 1324091584
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. The author of Presumed Guilty, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, and The Case Against the Supreme Court, among many other works, he lives in Oakland, California.