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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Erwin Chemerinsky: No Democracy Lasts Forever
Description: Has the U.S. Constitution become a threat to American democracy? Does it need to be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided?Join us as Erwin Chemerinsky returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to share his deeply troubled thoughts of the Constitution’s inherent flaws. The dean of the UC Berkeley law school came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now facing American democracy.Chemerinsky points out that just 15 of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed, an...