How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

Mickey Edwards is the Director of the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership and lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was a member of Congress from Oklahoma from 1977 to 1992, elected as a Republican.

Since leaving Congress he has taught at Harvard, Georgetown, and Princeton Universities and has chaired various task forces for the Constitution Project, the Brookings Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he is currently an advisor to the US Department of State and a member of the Princeton Project on National Security.

In his upcoming book The Parties vs. The People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, Edwards offers a six step plan to fix Congress, designed - as he puts it - "to turn our political system on its head, so that the people, not parties, control our government."

Edwards calls for open primaries to "break the power of the partisans ... so "They [elected officials] would be our representatives, not the representatives of their political clubs."

Use the above link to read Edward's article in The Atlantic for a preview of what's to come.









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