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The Cost of Losing Faith: Lincoln’s Lasting Lyceum

February 3, 2021
Stephen Clouse

Justice, or the call for it, defined much of our political landscape in 2020 as it also defines the early days of 2021. A violent permutation of that call resulted in a police station being burned down, billions of dollars in property damage across the country, and a mob storming the American Capitol with the […]

Beyond the Electoral College: Toward Communitarian Democracy

January 25, 2021
Paul Schumaker

Following the failed insurrection of January 6, 2021, the Electoral College’s sacred role in ensuring the legitimacy of our presidential elections was widely hailed. But that insurrection was occasioned by what had long been understood as a minor, ceremonial element of the College: the counting of ballots cast by electors and certified by state officials. […]

Constitutional Ruminations

December 28, 2020
W. B. Allen

The following essay is a response to pieces by Sanford Levinson, George Van Cleve, David Wilkins, and Citizen US as part of our Symposium on Constitutional Reform.   When the political scientist John Roche described the founders of the 1780s as a “reform caucus” in action, he captured a truth that has proved elusive in […]

Lincoln’s House Divided and Ours

December 4, 2020
Justin Dyer

Remarks prepared for “A House Divided: Protests, Patriots, and Partisanship,” a panel discussion presented by Mizzou’s Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship and Justice on November 11, 2020. All three of the synoptic Gospels tell a story in which Jesus says, “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is […]

A Popular Convention for a New Constitution

November 30, 2020
George William Van Cleve

The right of the American people to revise the Constitution acting outside of Article V is supported by compelling historical precedents, as I have shown elsewhere.   A new constitution could be adopted through a national referendum or by popular ratification of proposals made by a popular convention, for example.  In this essay, I assume that […]

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