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Post the Vote

:ConstitutionWe interrupt our regularly scheduled Constitutional study for an exercise in applied democracy. In other words, voting in the November 6 midterm elections. For most of my lifetime, Americans have gotten all excited about the presidential election, and ignored literally every other opportunity to vote. This is not how democracy works (it’s not great for representative republics, either, so skip the semantics) and lately democracy isn’t working.

So. Have you heard the good news? About the mail-in ballot?

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Article 1 §3.2: Staggering the Senate

Lately democracy has been taking a global beating, and the U.S. has not been immune, what with a Russian-influenced presidential election and a new president who appears not to understand or be familiar with the Constitution. But people in glass houses should not throw stones, so I’m studying the Constitution, and blogging what I learn. I’d love to make it a study group. After all, in a functioning democracy we should all be Constitutional scholars.

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