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Maine Voices: How to put a stop to American democracy’s decline?

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion January 29, 2023

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Founder James Madison of Virginia, the principal author of our Constitution and fourth president, believed that various constitutional “checks and balances” were our essential safeguards against tyranny and autocracy. Yale’s Robert Dahl, the leading American political scientist of the 20th century, took exception to Madison in this regard. Dahl insisted that the ultimate safeguard of democracy lay not in a complex network of institutional... + full article



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