Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy
How and why the U.S. needs to enlarge the U.S. House to account for proportional representation and fundamentally change the election of the president and vice president
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Show Notes
Trey talks with constitutional law professor Maxwell Stearns about his new book Parliamentary America which argues the U.S. needs to adapt the U.S. House to include proportional representation.
Topics Trey and Max Cover Include
- how the median voter theory is inaccurate
- why American parties are tending in extreme directions
- proposals to double the size of the House of Representatives
- proposals to transform the selection of president and vice president
- proposals to change how to remove a president
- the historic necessity of convincing relevant actors to agree to these changes.
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