The TPP Is a Test of Democracy
Category: POLITICS
The press to fast-track TPP is a sellout of democracy, but it is also a symptom of a deeper collapse of faith in American self-government.  Increasingly, people who want to get something done find ways around democratic lawmaking: private investment, nonprofit social mobilization, executive actions, lawsuits in the courts, anything but going to Congress.
By Jedediah Purdy, ContributorProfessor, Duke Law School; Author, 'A Tolerable Anarchy', 2015-05-23