Analysis Of Framed Sanford Levinson s The Current State...

In the book Framed Sanford Levinson discussed the current state of government and the Constitution. He discusses many aspects of the Constitution, including all of its flaws, offering solutions to fix these, and even suggesting that we are overdue for a new one. Levinson begins his argument with discussing aspects of Government that did not work and the only way a solution can be made is with awareness that the issue even exists. When Sanford Levinson was writing this book the 2012 campaign was happening. With the campaign occurring this means there are going to be new policies being made, propositions are being proposed, and many changes can be made with all of these new decisions being made. With all of these new decisions being discussed Levinson brings up many that have occurred in the past dues to disagreements, such as the brief government shut down due to irreconcilable differences between Newt Gingrich and President Clinton and near shut down in 2011 due to a last-minute comp romise Between President Obama and John Boehner. He also brings up many of Americans opinions on the government and many of the different branches of government. For example he brings up the SP analysis that â€Å"reflects the widespread view that the American political system has become profoundly dysfunctional,† as well as the statistics that show only twelve percent of American public approve of the Congress, and also noting that, taken from a poll, eighty-one percent were dissatisfied with how