Suppose you think everyone should have access to higher education in this country. How would you do it? Lately, student debt forgiveness has become the default approach of reformers. It was the means for President Obama’s proposal for free community college (really debt forgiveness for graduates) and it was the foundation of Gov. Cuomo’s suggestion of free state school tuition for… Continue Reading
The long effort to roll back voting access (previously here and here), Obama’s recent speech at Selma, and now Oregon’s step toward automatic voter registration has again called my attention to our voting rights. So here’s my contribution: a draft constitutional amendment on voting. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are… Continue Reading
Jason: I find myself in complete agreement with Jason. The push for voter ID laws in states across the country has shown a belief that the system is overrun with fraud. The numbers of actual vote fraud do not warrant this type of strict regulation of freedom. I thought he summed up the entire situation… Continue Reading
My argument against additional qualifications for citizens to vote boils down to these two core beliefs: (1) Democracy is the only legitimate basis for governing authority and therefore (2) all those governed should have a say in their government – most basically, a vote, Jacob has suggested that the outcomes – what people decide to… Continue Reading
“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” “We the people of the United States … do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” “…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” The through-line connecting… Continue Reading
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