In the fifth installment in this series, we continue to explore the path of constitutional political reform in the 21st century, tracing them back to the diverse but compelling reasons to believe democracy is not working well in America today in terms of both historical roots and contemporary symptoms. If a minority opposed to America's transition to a multi-racial democracy and post-traditional culture has found a home in the Republican party and increasingly favors an illiberal form of populist authoritarianism, an this kind of politics aided and abetted by certain features of the American Constitution, can they be reformed so that the majority exercises proportionate and effective power of elections and policy and all main political parties are forced to compete for genuine majority support? To answer this question, we examine in detail a slate of reforms recently proposed by two extremely influential contemporary political scientists.

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