The US Constitution is breaking down in ways that its designers recognised from history — and thought they had guarded against, writes USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel in this article published by Foreign Policy.
Election Watch 20246 January 2021
The Founding Fathers didn’t see this coming
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Dr Charles Edel
Senior Adviser and Australia ChairCenter for Strategic and International Studies