DUKE LAW PROFESSOR Jedediah Purdy is a man with a plan for political reform, and he outlines this plan towards the end of his latest book, Two Cheers for Politics.
Purdy’s primary goal is to renew the United States Constitution, which he views as having lost much of its legitimacy, partly due to the exclusion of some now-enfranchised groups (women, Black Americans) from formulating the United States’ founding documents. The people governed by the Constitution thus now differ substantially in their characteristics from those who originally devised it.
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