How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Essay -- Book Reviews Rob

Robert Dahls book How Democratic is the American reputation, reminds us that the American Constitution wasnt the only possible base for a democratic system in America. In this book Dahl explains some of the democratic and undemocratic aspects of the American constitution. He also explains what should be changed to improve it.In chapter 2, Dahl begins explaining near the Framers of the constitution who had the task of basic solelyy creating a new government that combated all of the problems of the new United States of America. The Framers desperately needed to gather knowledge on how to go about creating a new society but, there was actually little information that would help them. Dahl then listed a a few(prenominal) events in history that if the Framers knew about it would have importantly changed the appearance the constitution was created. First, there was a peaceful democratic revolution which altered the way the constitutional system would work. Second, during this revolut ion new political institutions would be created, this would significantly alter the way the Framers setup their framework of...