The United State: A Constitutional Challenge
Proving the unconstitutionality of congressional districts and the necessity of a Statewide Proportional Open-List System.
About the Author
My name is Peter Cohen. As noted in the Prologue, I am neither a constitutional lawyer nor a legal scholar.
I am a retired financial markets data analyst with a dual master's degree in applied mathematics and computer science. I mention this to be transparent about who is making this argument and where it comes from.
What motivated this project is genuine concern about the direction of this country. I have watched for years as Congress has become increasingly dysfunctional, polarized, and unresponsive to the citizens it is supposed to represent. In addition, for a long time I have questioned whether districts were constitutional since they are not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
Now that I have the time, I decided to do a deep dive into this issue.
This document is the result of that deep dive and makes a compelling case that districts are indeed unconstitutional.
The document was written with extensive consultation with Anthropic's Claude as a research and writing collaborator. The thinking, the judgment, and the conclusions are mine — the collaboration helped make the argument sharper.
About Publius Valerius Poplicola
Publius Valerius Poplicola was one of Four Roman aristocrats who overthrew the existing Roman Monarchy and established the Roman Republic. However, were it not for the Federalist Papers we would probably never have heard about Publius Valerius Poplicola.
This article provides an interesting background on the reason why the authors of the Federalist Papers chose the name Publius as their pseudonym. And what makes the Federalist Papers so important?
They represent an inside look into the minds of three of the foremost Founding Fathers who shared their views on the importance of the acceptance and adherence to the Constitution.
