Marc Landy and Sidney Milkis make the case that American history is a “conflict-ridden relationship between [liberal
values] and democracy.†Whether you’re talking about the history of Congress, Federalism, the Presidency, the Courts,
even the federal bureaucracy, this tension persists. Indeed if you take any contemporary issue in American politics you can
see that tension there as well.
Your job is to reaffirm this argument by examining how an issue of your choice echoes prior debates and/or conflicts between
rights and democracy that have riddled our history.
