America is hopelessly polarized and dysfunctional, and the Constitution is to blame—at least that’s what generations of progressive critics have argued. The onerous amendment process, the first-past-the-post elections, the unrepresentative Senate, the counter-majoritarian Supreme Court, and the idiosyncratic Electoral College are all, in their own pernicious ways, crippling our political life and driving us apart.
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Ben Rolsma is a recent law school graduate now living in Birmingham, Alabama.
