The constitution in jeopardy : an unprecedented effort to rewrite our fundamental law and what we can do about it / Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville.
"A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward. Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism--the nation's first ever--has...
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New York :
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Foundations. Bloodless revolution: the radical idea of peaceful constitutional change ; Compromise and tension: the creation of Article V
- Part two: Constitutional amendment: dismissed and misunderstood. The archaics: some trouble with conventional wisdom ; A sleeping giant: the enduring importance of Article V and the convention route
- Part three: A warning. What Trump and the Tea Party couldn't do: the modern conservative push and the mirage of a limited constitutional convention ; Counting to thirty-four: constitutional mathematics and its dangerous flaws ; "We the people" in perilous times: a constitutional convention in an era of faction
- Part four: A way forward. The constitution in jeopardy: Article V in the twenty-first century ; Revolution, revisited: toward a new constitutional politics
- Epilogue.