Submitted by Stephen Dunne on April 1, 2024 - 12:42pm
At 7:30pm on Thursday, April 4th, at Town Hall, Professor Mark Smith will be appearing with Maxwell Stearns, author of Parliamentary America, to discuss this question: Can a parliamentary democracy end America’s constitutional crisis?
Tickets are available on a sliding scale, starting at $5, and are free to those who are 22 and under.
For details and to book your ticket, go to https://townhallseattle.org/event/maxwell-stearns/
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Can a parliamentary democracy end America's constitutional crisis? It's starting to feel to some people that American elections aren't offering us much choice, instead compounding the continued issues of our outdated voting system and showing our lack of capacity to face common issues together. In Parliamentary America, Maxwell L. Stearns argues that the solution to these complex problems is a parliamentary democracy. Stearns considers alternatives such as ranked choice voting, the national popular vote, and congressional term limits, showing why these can't solve our constitutional crisis. Instead, three amendments—expanding the House of Representatives, having House party coalitions choose the president, and letting the House end a failing presidency based on no confidence—will produce a robust multiparty democracy.
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