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The national elections of 2004 exposed growing structural problems with America's democracy. The good news of higher turnout & the lack of a constitutional crisis resembling the Florida debacle of 2000 could not hide the continuing difficulties with registration, inconsistent election laws, inequality in access to the voting booth, comparatively low turnout, non-competitive legislative elections, district gerrymandering, & partisan oversight of elections. While many of these aspects of the American electoral system are of long standing, almost all of them have been exacerbated in recent decades. What are the prospects for reforming American democracy in the 21st century? Adapted from the source document.

La nouvelle constitution federale devrait prevoir le systeme electoral le plus approprie aux exigences d'efficacite et de democratie, c'est-a-dire l'election par vote majoritaire des conseillers municipaux, des deputes d'etat et des deputes federaux. Tous ces representants elus par circonscriptions electorale doivent etre consideres comme representants non seulement de leurs electeurs, mais de toute la population concernee, et il serait bon d'instaurer un systeme de revocation permettant a un nombre significatif d'electeurs de demander le rappel d'un representant qui les aurait decus. Ce systeme, s'il est operationnel, pourrait etre etendu aux postes executifs des etats, et meme de l'etat federal