More and More People Are Saying It: Scrap the Constitution

Erwin Chemerinsky , dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law , has joined the chorus of voices calling for a new constitution.

His new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States , has been reviewed by major outlets like the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker .

Dean of UC Berkeley Law says we need a new constitution, agrees with some of the founding document’s most vocal critics.

Daniel Lazare argues that an Article V convention to change the Constitution would itself be undemocratic.

Michael Kammen , Sanford and Cynthia Levinson , and Aziz Rana have all probed America 's fetishistic relationship to the Constitution .

But even if the basic criticisms are old, the number of people talking about the problem is new.

Frida Ghitis: Discussion of threats posed by the internet and social media sits awkwardly in a work devoted to the Constitution ’s antidemocratic features.

She says focusing on the potential threats of AI , social media, and so on to democracy seems to put the cart before the horse.

Ghitis says winning a new constitution — having a democracy — has to come before figuring out how to improve voters’ access to information.