Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.
America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument
By George Thomas, Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions, Claremont McKenna College
George Thomas argues that while the United States of America may formally be a republic, the spirit of democracy is its true aim—and that aim is thwarted by the Electoral College, which allows minority numbers of the country to rule at the federal level.
Nothing Changes at the Stroke of Midnight Tonight
By Kim Wehle, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Kim Wehle writes that Donald Trump’s demands that ballots stop being counted after Election Day are both antidemocratic and unworkable because counting so many ballots takes a long time and voters should not be penalized for that.
Trump’s Lawsuits Are Politics Disguised as a Legal Strategy
By Kim Wehle, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Kim Wehle chronicles some of the lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed but says they are without merit and the allegations of fraud behind some of them are simply untrue.
