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Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago
“How Do We Get a New Constitution”
Panelists: Aziz Rana
The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and least democratic founding documents in the world. Will it take a revolution to rewrite our Constitution? The recent Constituent Assembly in Chile may show a way forward.
Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Cornell University. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and the forthcoming book, The Constitutional Bind: Why a Broken Document Rules America.
Who Owns the Constitution, Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/us-constitution-law-supreme-court-socialism
Why Americans Worship the Constitution, Public Seminar of The New School
https://publicseminar.org/essays/why-americans-worship-the-constitution/
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Logo by Michaela Brangan
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