Season 4, Episode 37 (Show 194): The Devil You Know
September 11, 2024
A recent New York Times article questions the value of the Constitution, suggesting it may be more a danger to the Union than its salvation. We discuss.
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The New York Times looks at the Constitution as an allegedly anti-democratic, divisive, secession-promoting document. They bring authority to bolster their case in the person of the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky. We take a close look at this article and the arguments it employs. This takes us to the center of the Constitution’s purposes, of course to questions of originalism, as well as an analysis of what sort of democracy the Constitution protects, and what sort it might protect against.
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