Yet while dependent on the people, the Constitution did not embrace simple majoritarian democracy. The states, with unequal populations, got equal representation in the Senate.

During 2023, I laid out a plan for renovating American democracy. Our society groans under the strain of population growth and massively scaled-up institutions. Rising diversity brings ...

The Constitution subverts democracy in a second, more subtle way. As Purdy notes, the countermajoritarian structure of the American system inhibits lawmaking and slows down politics, ...

How to lose a constitutional democracy. This moment demands more than headlines. In a time of noise, confusion, and spin, we’re committed to clarity, truth, and depth — even when it’s hard.

The American experiment with constitutional democracy is in grave peril. If Donald Trump becomes president again, fighting to preserve U.S. constitutional democracy through his second term will ...

Debates that pit our nation's status as democracy or constitutional republic tend to intensify around specific policy debates or more generally among candidates in high-profile elections, such as ...

The Constitution seeks to defend, as Madison put it at the Constitutional Convention, “[against] the inconveniencies of democracy” while remaining “consistent with the democratic form of ...

Election denialism has become not only a thing but a movement. And if critics call this an attack on democracy, some election deniers respond by saying the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic.

The United States Constitution is in trouble. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he called for the “termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the ...

Debates that pit our nation's status as democracy or constitutional republic tend to intensify around specific policy debates or more generally among candidates in high-profile elections, such as ...

While Israel is a legislative democracy with 13 quasiconstitutional Basic Laws, it isn’t a true constitutional democracy. The Basic Laws were intended to be draft chapters of a formal, ...