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Defending the Constitution
ROBERT A. Dahl, one of America’s most prominent political scientists, asks us in his latest book to judge the Constitution in the light of a single criterion: By present-day standards, how democratic is it? Dahl examines just about every provision of the Constitution_those regarding the legislatures, the presidency, the courts, election methods, the federal structure, the party system, and moreland finds them all unacceptably undemocratic.
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