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12. Return to First Solutions or Extra-Constitutional Means of Bridging the Divide: Remedies III (The How, Continued)

Author : Jeanne Sheehan

Published in: American Democracy in Crisis

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The final chapter of the text, Chapter 12 (“Return to First Solutions or Extra-Constitutional Means of Bridging the Divide: Remedies III (The How, Continued)”) continues where the previous chapter left off focusing on the “how” of constitutional reform. Given the difficulty of amending the Constitution via the two Article V routes provided by the Framers, this chapter focuses on extra-constitutional means of changing the structure of government, including a return to first solutions (parties and leadership), electoral reform proposals, changes to federal and state statute, and institutional reforms. In this context, the chapter also includes an argument made by E.E. Schattschneider that scholars do themselves no favors when they consider this strictly a structural problem because it is, in his view and at its root, not only a structural problem but more importantly, theoretical and political as well.

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previous chapter The “Two Modes”—Proposal by Congress and “The Other Way”: Remedies II (The How)
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Metadata
Title
Return to First Solutions or Extra-Constitutional Means of Bridging the Divide: Remedies III (The How, Continued)
Author
Jeanne Sheehan
Copyright Year
2021
Book
American Democracy in Crisis

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-62280-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-62281-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62281-7_12