02593cam a2200349 i 4500 1601365242 TxAuBib 20240919120000.0 240320s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324091585 hardcover $29.99 1324091584 hardcover $29.99 (OCoLC)1428770637 TxAuBib rda Chemerinsky, Erwin, author. No democracy lasts forever : how the Constitution threatens the United States / Erwin Chemerinsky. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2024] ©2024. xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I. The crisis facing American democracy -- Part II. How the Constitution became a threat to democracy -- Part III. Can the United States be saved? "No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided. 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constitutional convention is empowered to replace the Constitution of 1787, much as the Founding Fathers replaced the outdated Articles of Confederation.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." -- Goodreads. 20240921. United States Constitution. United States Politics and government 21st century.