The Framers’ Constitution - Democracy Journal
WEBFirst, at the very core of the Framers’ Constitution is the recognition that, in a self-governing society, courts must generally defer to the preferences of the majority. Although courts may always review governmental action to guard against the arbitrary or unreasonable, the starting point must be a presumption of judicial modesty.
Understanding the Gulf States - Democracy Journal
WEBFrom independence in the 1970s through the mid-’90s, Qatar was the most loyal ally of Saudi Arabia within the GCC. The ruler, Sheikh Khalifa, had no particular ambitions beyond his borders. Qatar kept a very low profile. After Khalifa was deposed by his son Sheikh Hamad in 1995, Qatari policy shifted dramatically.
The Networks of Self-Governance - Democracy Journal
WEBThis historical and institutional layering of democratic forms is the terrain upon which we continually reconstruct our self-governing democracy. Today, such reconstruction requires that we think more deeply about civic agents and public agencies. Civic Agents. The first thing we need to do is reimagine citizens as problem-solving civic agents ...
The Missing Right: A Constitutional Right to Vote
WEBThe correct answer, according to the United States government, was, “The right to vote.”. But that “right” has always been on shaky ground. Just as the Constitution once countenanced slavery, it also allowed voting to be restricted to property-holding white men. The Thirteenth Amendment expunged the stain of slavery from our basic law ...
The Greatest Mobilization Since WWII : Democracy Journal
WEBSam Ricketts is a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress, and formerly led climate policy and strategy for Governor Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign. Previously, Ricketts was executive director of the Congressional Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) and worked in the Washington State Governor’s Office, Democratic Governors Association, Working Families Party ...
What History Teaches Us - Democracy Journal
WEBTagged Democrats History Populism progressivism The New Deal. The People’s Party or Populist Party of the early 1890s marked a departure in American politics. Populism mobilized millions of men and women—farmers and workers, middle class activists and urban reformers—to challenge corporate power. In doing so it made major political ...
Labor and Capital in the Global Economy : Democracy Journal
WEBIndeed, the recent era has been marked by growing firm concentration, with large firms earning the lion’s share of profits. McKinsey Global Institute calculates that the top 10 percent of the world’s public companies earn 80 percent of the profits, and firms with more than $1 billion in revenues account for 60 percent of all global revenues and 65 percent of market capitalization.
A New Constitution for The United States : Democracy Journal
WEBIllustration by Pep Montserrat. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect Union founded on liberty, dignity, democracy, and equality; to seek truth and promote justice, past and present; to provide for the security and general welfare of the Nation and all who call it home; to find unity in our ...
The Last Liberal Justice? - Democracy Journal
WEBTagged Civil Rights Constitution law Supreme Court. Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion By Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2010 • 688 pages • $35. A few years before he retired last summer, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens remarked that since 1971, every one of the justices appointed to the Court—he ...
Can We Deliberate, Please? - Democracy Journal
WEBD eliberative democracy is itself a reform, if a carefully circumscribed one, of the classical model of representative democracy. The early Federalists, above all John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, feared “the mob” and regarded electoral representation as a bulwark against the irrationality of the average citizen.