Debating Reform
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Debating Reform

Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System

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eBook - ePub

Debating Reform

Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System

About this book

Getting students away from spouting opinions about highly-charged partisan issues, Debating Reform, Fourth Edition looks at key questions about reforming political institutions, with contributed pieces written by top scholars specifically for the volume. Each pro or con essay considers a concrete proposal for reforming the political system. By focusing on institutions, rather than liberal or conservative public policies, students tend to leave behind ideology and grapple with claims and evidence to draw their own conclusions and build their own arguments. Students will explore how institutions work in their American government text, but this reader helps them to understand how they can be made to work better.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Resolved, Article V Should Be Revised to Make It Easier to Amend the Constitution and to Call a Constitutional Convention
  9. Chapter 2 Resolved, Impeachment Should Be Normalized
  10. Chapter 3 Resolved, Marijuana Policy Should Be Set by the States, not the Federal Government
  11. Chapter 4 Resolved, States Should Enact Voter ID Laws and Reduce Early Voting
  12. Chapter 5 Resolved, Congress Should Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
  13. Chapter 6 Resolved, The United States Should Adopt a National Initiative and Referendum
  14. Chapter 7 Resolved, The United States Should Adopt Compulsory Voting
  15. Chapter 8 Resolved, Congress Should Remove the Caps on the Amount that Individuals can Contribute to Candidates for Federal Office
  16. Chapter 9 Resolved, States Should Require Open Primaries
  17. Chapter 10 Resolved, Congress Should Bring Back Earmarks
  18. Chapter 11 Resolved, Proportional Representation Should Be Adopted For U.S. House Elections
  19. Chapter 12 Resolved, The Redistricting Process Should Be Nonpartisan
  20. Chapter 13 Resolved, The Senate Should Represent People, Not States
  21. Chapter 14 Resolved, Senate Rule XXII Should Be Amended so That Legislative Filibusters Can Be Ended by a Majority Vote
  22. Chapter 15 Resolved, The Electoral College Should Be Abolished
  23. Chapter 16 Resolved, The Twenty-Second Amendment Should Be Repealed
  24. Chapter 17 Resolved, The President Should Be Able to Fire Anyone in the Executive Branch
  25. Chapter 18 Resolved, The Terms of Supreme Court Justices Should Be Limited to Eighteen Years
  26. Chapter 19 Resolved, Americans Should Receive Four More Years of Free Public Education
  27. Chapter 20 Resolved, National Security Would Be Strengthened by Requiring the Government to Keep Fewer Secrets and Become More Transparent
  28. Contributors