{"id":41356,"date":"2025-05-20T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41356"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:28:03","slug":"book-no-democracy-lasts-forever-how-the-constitution-threatens-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/book-no-democracy-lasts-forever-how-the-constitution-threatens-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1698287364i\/200714873.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/111077.Erwin_Chemerinsky\">Erwin Chemerinsky<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.<br>Deeply troubled by the Constitution\u2019s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now facing American democracy. Pointing out that just fifteen of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed, Chemerinsky contends that the very nature of our polarization results from the Constitution\u2019s \u201cbad bones,\u201d which have created a government that no longer works or has the confidence of the public. Yet political armageddon can still be avoided, Chemerinsky writes, if a new constitutional convention is empowered to replace the Constitution of 1787, much as the Founding Fathers replaced the outdated Articles of Confederation. If this isn\u2019t possible, Americans must give serious thought to forms of secession\u2014including a United States structured like the European Union\u2014based on a recognition that what divides us as a country is, in fact, greater than what unites us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States Erwin Chemerinsky No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution\u2019s inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/book-no-democracy-lasts-forever-how-the-constitution-threatens-the-united-states\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41357,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41356\/revisions\/41357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}