James Julian Hare: Pretty sure we're on at least #3 if you include the civil war as constitutional negotiation by other means. Honestly probably 4 if you look at the Roosevelt years.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided

If that means a return to a parliamentary system of government for the US, I'd take it!

Not that many parliaments are doing a fantastic job globally right now either, tho I do have a soft spot for them

Our system is done and I think we need to stop pretending that there is something left to salvage. No matter what we vote in November it's clear we no longer operate under rules and laws and are no longer a democracy in any sense of the word. Time for us to accept America's 1st democracy failed.

Technically we’re already on our second. The first failed nearly immediately.

think you can make some non-trivial claims to there being a few discontinuities

Pretty sure we're on at least #3 if you include the civil war as constitutional negotiation by other means. Honestly probably 4 if you look at the Roosevelt years.

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