Editor's note: This piece is excerpted from Andrew C. McCarthy's post on National Review's The Corner.

"The objective [of NYU Law's Democracy Project] is to assess the challenges to American democracy 'from diverse ideological perspectives...The project is being launched with a series called '100 ideas in 100 days.' Contributors have been asked to provide short essays on various aspects of democracy and the pressures it faces due to extremist perspectives, erosion of the governing framework that safeguards liberty and due process, and the eternal question of whether proposed reforms would be helpful or counterproductive.

I was gratified to be asked to provide a piece for the project, and I’m looking forward to reading the other contributions.

The project is being led by three NYU law profs who are experts in governance and legal issues specific to democracies worldwide — Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel who, with Jack Goldsmith, co-founded the excellent 'Executive Functions' Substack, which I highly recommend; election law expert Richard Pildes; and Samuel Issacharoff, a scholar of constitutions.'"

Read the full piece by Andrew C. McCarthy here.