Challenging Direct Democracy

Authors

Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

I want to argue today that direct democracy is undesirable and unconstitutional. I want to argue to you that the Supreme Court should find that the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is unconstitutional, and strike it down. So I want to make two points. First, I am going to argue that direct democracy is undesirable. This is a normative argument; it’s not an argument about constitutional doctrine. Second, I want to argue that direct democracy is unconstitutional, and make a series of different arguments as to why.

Citation

Erwin Chemerinsky, Challenging Direct Democracy, 2007 Michigan State Law Review 293-306 (2007)

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