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John Davenport is a professor of philosophy who teaches ethics, political philosophy, democratic theory and human rights at Fordham University. He is the author of The Democracy Amendments (Anthem 2023), which examines 25 proposed constitutional reforms, and A League of Democracies (Routledge, 2019).
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Colorado and Maine have forced the U.S. Supreme Court to make a quick decision on whether Donald J. Trump can be removed from the ballot for having encouraged an ”insurrection.”
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Vladimir Putin‘s aggression against Ukraine fails just war theory, but the ethicist John Davenport writes that NATO forces are morally justified in responding with proportionate military action.
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A national voter registry, criminal penalties for misleading people about election law and ranked-choice voting are among the ways to restore U.S. democracy, writes Fordham University’s John Davenport.