Mandatory Democracy?

... amendment. The process of making such an amendment can take many years, even decades. However, Barack Obama added that he had already instructed the Department of Justice to take steps to expand citizens’ involvement and to remove all restrictions in elections at the local and state level. For all the apparent simplicity and straightforwardness of this initiative to improve the institutions of American democracy, however, if it were put into effect it would be of truly revolutionary significance for American politics. Barack Obama himself quite frankly outlined the hopes and calculations which the current leadership of the Democratic Party links to the introduction of a system of mandatory voting in America. These are the precise words the US president used : “In ...