Direct democracy in the United States?

The Direct Democracy Center describes itself as "an unfunded, unaffiliated non-profit group of independent nonpartisan citizens promoting direct democracy in America." Go to the Center's home page, located at http://www.realdemocracy.com/, and read its proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution. What would you say is the overall goal of the proposal? How would an advocate of pluralist democracy react to the proposal? How would an advocate of majoritarian democracy react? How would an advocate of elite theory react?




League of Women Voters "Charting the Health of American Democracy"

The League of Women Voters, founded in 1920 as an outgrowth of the suffragist movement, is one of the nation's premier political education and advocacy groups. The League is non-partisan and neither supports nor opposes candidates for office at any level of government. Recently, the League's concern with the state of democracy in the United States led it to publish a report entitled Charting the Health of American Democracy. Go to the League's home page, located at http://www.lwv.org/, and find the online version of this report. Read the sections entitled "Introduction-The Diagnosis" and "Summary." Does the League appear to be focusing its attention and efforts on concerns about the state of majoritarian or pluralist democracy in the U.S.? List a few examples from the Introduction and / or the Summary to illustrate your answer.