The Republican Papers, Volume 2

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A book by Maxwell Frazier

Volume 2The Modern Republic

Institutions, civic virtue, and an expanded reform roadmap.

Volume II focuses on the modern republic at a crossroads, the Constitution and its discontents, and an expanded “New American Deal” roadmap for reform.

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Excerpt

America has reached a moment where nearly every pillar of the republic is under strain. The presidency grows more powerful with each crisis. Congress hesitates to act unless forced. States confront sovereignty questions left unresolved for more than a century. And the American people are expected to trust institutions that no longer trust them back.

Technology now shapes public life faster than law can respond. Climate instability pressures infrastructure built for another era. AI and automation are changing entire industries before workers even know what replaced them. And our digital landscape fractures reality itself, making shared truth harder to sustain.

Through all of this, one truth cuts deeper than the rest:

Contents

Prologue: The Republic in Our Hands

Part I: The Modern Republic at the Crossroads

  • Faction and Polarization in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Imperial Presidency and the Ratchet Effect of Crisis
  • Civic Education and the Decline of Virtue
  • Information, Media, and the Republic of Opinion
  • Lessons from Enlightenment Thinkers for the Digital Age
  • The Republic’s Future: Liberty or Empire
  • Belonging to a Republic We Did Not Build

Part II: The Constitution and its Discontents

  • The Articles of Confederation: An Experiment in Weak Union
  • Drafting the Constitution: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and Compromise
  • Is Each State Still Sovereign? Comparing U.S. Federalism to the European Union
  • The Supremacy Clause and the Meaning of Union
  • Separation of Powers and the Question of Emergency Government
  • Judicial Supremacy and Constitutional Interpretation
  • The Peaceful Transfer of Power as a Republican Norm

Part III: The Expanded New American Deal

  • The New American Deal: A Summary of the Thirteen Pillars
  • Democracy Rebuilt: Voting, Representation, and Term Limits in a Modern Republic
  • Breaking the Duopoly: Election Financing and Multiparty Reform
  • Reforming the Senate and the Executive
  • Guardrails of Justice: Judicial Independence and Oversight
  • The Rights of the Future: Digital, AI, and Information Sovereignty
  • National Resilience: Civic Service, Climate, and Infrastructure Security
  • Beyond the GWOT: A Post-9/11 Military and Ending Federal Overreach
  • A Military for the New Era: Lessons from Ukraine and Future Warfare
  • The Next Frontier: Naval and Space Strategy for a Republican Future
  • The Folly of Warring Against Ideas: From Drugs to Terror
  • The Expanded New American Deal in Practice: Roadmap for Implementation

Back Matter

  • Final Words from the Author
  • The Architecture of Nations: Sovereignty, Continuity, and the Restoration of the Crown
  • Bibliography

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