Democracy: A Journal of Ideas today published a new draft constitution for the United States.
Editor Michael Tomasky describes this special symposium as “probably the most ambitious project ever undertaken by this journal.”
This was an extraordinary endeavor that brought together legal academics, political scientists and some journalists to return to the fundamentals and rethink the American political order and the role the present Constitution plays in generating or enhancing the political pathologies now gripping the United States.
I was one of the 55 delegates to this drafting convention that spent the last year deliberating — and I have an essay included in this symposium — a dissent.