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Article 21 MAR 2026

Cumulative Crises & The Social Contract of Adhesion

The U.S. constitutional system has been undermined by an accumulation of structural failures, each of which made the next one more likely, resulting in a system that has lost the capacity to correct itself.

Christian Haumesser

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Article 25 MAR 2026

Inherited Principles: What We Build On

Redemocratize is not nihilistic about the American democratic tradition. Many of its principles are sound. The crisis is that the institutional implementation has failed them.

Christian Haumesser

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Topic 25 MAR 2026

Preventing & Defeating Authoritarianism

The Redemocratrize Principles are designed to make authoritarian capture structurally impossible — not through norms or good faith, but through architecture.

Christian Haumesser

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Topic 25 MAR 2026

Wealth Inequality & Oligarchy

Why extreme wealth concentration is inherently incompatible with democracy, and what governance designed to prevent it looks like.

Christian Haumesser

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