How democratic is the American Constitution? / Robert Alan Dahl.

New Haven (Conn) : Yale Univ Pr, 2001.

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Constitutional history -- United States.

Democracy.

Constitutional law.

1. Introduction : fundamental questions

2. What the framers couldn't know

3. The Constitution as a model : an American illusion

4. Electing the President

5. How well does the constitutional system perform?

6. Why not a more democratic constitution?

7. Some reflections on the prospects for a more democratic constitution

App A. On the terms "democracy" and "republic"

App B. Tables and figures.

Includes index.

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x, 198 p.