George Thomas

George Thomas is the Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College and the author of The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind and The (Un)Written Constitution, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

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‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
- George Thomas
- November 2, 2020
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How a Populist Destroys America

Constitutional limits don’t mean anything if they’re not enforced.
- George Thomas
- November 5, 2019

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‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument

How a Populist Destroys America