THE VELVET COUP
According to the media, the 2000 election debacle was a once-in-a-century fluke. But, in this riveting new polemic, political analyst Daniel Lazare argues that such events are increasingly likely to become the rule rather than the exception.

After more than two hundred years, America's antiquated government is in a state of chronic breakdown. A constitutional overhaul is urgently needed to update the machinery in line with the needs of modern democracy. Lazare contends that nothing less than a democratic revolution is needed to rescue American politics from growing paralysis and decay. Rather than a constitution that chains them to the past, Lazare argues that the American people need a constitution over which they can exercise control and which can set them free from the shackles of the past.

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