Reimagining the American Union - 9781009581417

Reimagining the American UnionThe Case for Abolishing State Government\nAuthor(s): Stephen H. Legomsky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009581417, 978-1009581417\nSynopsis\nReimagining the American Unionchallenges readers to imagine an America without state [url] longera union of arbitrarily constructed states, the country would become a union of its people. The first book ever to argue for abolishing state government in the US,itexposes state government astheroot cause of the gravest threats to American democracy. Some of those threats are baked into the Constitution; others are the product of state legislatures abusing their already-constitutionally-outsized powers through gerrymanders, voter suppression schemes, and other less-publicized manipulations that all too often purposefully target African-American and other minority voters. Reimagining the American Uniongoes on to demonstrate how h.