Legal History Blog: Fishkin and Forbath on the Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Legal History Blog: Fishkin and Forbath on the Anti-Oligarchy Constitution:

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, have posted The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, which also appears in the Boston University Law Review94 (2014): 671-98 Here is the abstract:

America has awakened to the threat of oligarchy. While inequality has been growing for decades, the Great Recession has made clear its social and political consequences: a narrowing of economic opportunity, a shrinking middle class, and an increasingly entrenched wealthy elite. There remains broad agreement that it is important to avoid oligarchy and build a robust middle class. But we have lost sight of the idea that these are constitutional principles.*****
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