Is American democracy working?
with a degree of certainty, answer yes. We’ve had no need to rise up and overthrow our government at any point in our short history. Elections for all public offices are held every few years, and since George Washington was elected as our first president, these transitions of power have occurred without any violence. Whichever side of the political landscape you find yourself on, liberal, conservative, or a little of both, to look at were we as a nation are today is to see that American democracy must be working. Otherwise, this experiment called the United States would have come apart long ago, right? Not so fast. A student of history would have some serious problems with simply giving our “democracy” a pass/fail grade. In exiting this class, I have learned a great deal in regards to our system of government, to include the history behind it and the ideals our Founding Fathers aspired to. If I were asked this question two months ago, I would have stopped, thought a minute, and, with a
