Why We Wrote The Book

The intellectual justification for the book that Danny and I wrote is simple: democracy is far from perfect, but if you don’t know exactly what’s broke and what’s working, you can’t possibly know how to go about fixing our problems. The alternative is to end up with pieces like “Our ImbecilicConstitution,” a blog post in the New York Times today by law professor Samuel Levinson.

Dr. Levinson is clearly frustrated with the current election and what it says about our current political system. An...