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This chapter (“The ‘Two Modes’—Proposal by Congress and ‘The Other Way’: Remedies II (The How)”) begins by focusing on Woodrow Wilson’s transformation from advocate of reform via constitutional means (Article V) to advocate for reform via extra-constitutional means (parties, judicial interpretation, statute, leadership, etc.). Whereas the last chapter focused on “the who and what” of constitutional reform: Who throughout American history has called for structural reform and what types of reforms did they advocate? This chapter (and the subsequent chapter) focuses on the “how”—How can constitutional revision be achieved? Can reason-based reform be realized in a system such as ours? What methods are available? Are the methods the Framers left us with viable or should we be looking to extra-constitutional means to bridge the divisions?
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Sheehan, J. (2021). The “Two Modes”—Proposal by Congress and “The Other Way”: Remedies II (The How). In: American Democracy in Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62281-7_11
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