In addition, let’s expand mail-in voting (which is how citizens who serve in the military routinely vote). We can and should make it much easier to carry out this civic duty: Keep polls open for an entire week, not a single day, and make sure that polling places are easily available - distributed across states according to population density. They have far higher turnouts, and their elections boast greater legitimacy. In our doppelganger ally down under, Australia, voting is compulsory. Let’s reimagine the democratic right of voting as a citizen’s obligation. suffrage law is the treatment of the electoral franchise as a privilege that is denied too easily and often because of an ugly prejudice or a convenient pretext. They are co-authors of “ Madison and Jefferson.”Ī long-standing defect in U.S. Manship professor of history at LSU and the author of nine books. Harry Williams professor of history at Louisiana State University and the author of the New York Times bestseller “ White Trash.” Burstein is the Charles P. Whatever side you were on in last year’s election, it’s clear that the campaign brought these problems dramatically to the surface of our national life it’s also clear that these challenges would have been with us, in equal measure, no matter who won. Among American citizens, ideological and philosophical divisions seem insurmountably sharp among their representatives in Washington, compromise appears impossible. In so many ways, the underlying conditions of U.S. In his study of 19th-century American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville explained his mission this way: “I undertook to see, not differently, but further than the parties and while they are occupied with the next day, I wanted to ponder the future.” Nearly two centuries later, all of us - Republican, Democrat, Trump supporter, Trump critic - should be able to agree that some future-pondering about the state of our democracy is in order.
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