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	"author_name": "NYC-DSA Citywide Political Education Committee",
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	"title": "How to Write a Constitution",
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	"description": "How to Write a Constitution NYC DSA Office (14 Jefferson St., NYC) Saturday, July 18, 10–4pm As clear as the need is for strong elected leadership toward a vision of positive social change, questions still remain about the system itself. If systemic change is in order, what are the structural foundations that make the system what it is? Fundamental to that question are the founding documents themselves, particularly the U.S. Constitution. How does this document serve and how might it stand in the way, what are our options toward modifying it, and how would we modify? Join NYC DSA&#x27;s Academy for a daylong workshop to explore these questions and more, led by noted left political and legal scholars Aziz Rana and Sandipto Gupta. &amp;nbsp; Course description: Against the backdrop of Biden era paralysis and Trumpian authoritarianism, it has become increasingly apparent that the U.S. Constitution exacerbates some of the worst elements of American politics. Why has the constitutional system failed to protect the rights of the most vulnerable or to empower multiracial democracy? And does the tradition of democratic socialism offer constitutional alternatives or assist us in thinking about pathways to change? More broadly, how have various democratic socialists approached questions of legal and political design? &amp;nbsp; This workshop will provide a critical analysis of the U.S. Constitution, as well as examine models drawn from U.S. socialist movements and global constitutional projects. By engaging with past political platforms, proposed and implemented constitutions, and selected readings, it will invite participants to imagine the building blocks of a new constitutional system and to initiate their own exercise in constitution drafting. Instructor bios: Aziz Rana is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. His writing has appeared in Dissent, n+1, The Boston Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Sidecar, Jacobin, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Nation, among other venues. Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony. His writings have appeared in The Boston Review, Jacobin, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Nation.",
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