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The U.S. Supreme Court: Reforming the Least Democratic Branch
The U.S. Supreme Court is neither democratic nor easily changed, to some Americans’ delight and others’ dismay. No one would seriously propose that we elect Justices—just take a look at the tawdry...
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Kermit Roosevelt III Replies to Larry Sabato: Reforming the U.S. Supreme Court
Kermit Roosevelt III, great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and author of Britannica’s recently published entries on judicial activism and judicial restraint, is a professor of law at the...
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Fast Approaching Worstest: What’s Wrong with Washington—10 Questions for...
Will Durst calls himself “a Midwestern baby boomer with a media-induced identity crisis.” For its part, the New York Times calls him “quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country...
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Keep the Bum In: Repeal the Twenty-second Amendment
Be it resolved, the Twenty-second Amendment, limiting a president to two terms in office (or a maximum of 10 years as president), is the most vindictive, ill-conceived, anti-democratic constitutional...
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Adopt Presidential Question Time Like the Brits: Just the Facts, Please
Foreword: I’ve been saving this post for an appropriate occasion. This week’s forum on “Reforming Uncle Sam” seems like the right time to bring it forth. Given the historical context of the subject, it...
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When Founders’ Envy becomes Political Obstruction
Asked to write about the most troubling feature of our national politics, I have considered many inviting targets—the filibuster and the Senate, the Supreme Court and the (ab-)use of judicial review,...
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The U.S. Senate: Undemocratic and Anachronistic (Convert It into a U.S. House...
In my last post I wrote about the problems of the U.S. Senate, especially associated with its’ principle of representation which is anachronistic and undemocratic. To be frank I’m a little torn about...
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Campaign Finance Reform: Taxing and Redistributing Campaign Contributions
We need a sensible campaign finance system that encourages competitive elections and respects the rights of campaign contributors. The current campaign finance system is a byzantine, convoluted,...
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Hyperbole and Nastiness: Politics (American Style), and What to do About It
All of the hysteria over the health care debate made me, I confess, a little nuts. Not as nuts as those people who feel compelled to hurl epithets and bricks at Members of Congress, but a little nuts...
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The Electoral College (Keep It, but Reform It)
For champions of the Electoral College as a mode of selecting the President of the United States, the worst-case scenario happened in the election of 2000. Because of the idiosyncrasy of the Electoral...
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