Democracy is an unfinished project that must be perpetually remade

Evidence

The very idea of democracy, the meaning of democracy, must be continually explored afresh; it has to be constantly discovered and rediscovered, remade and reorganized; while the political and economic and social institutions in which it is embodied have to be remade and reorganized to meet the changes that are going on in the development of new needs on the part of human beings and new resources for satisfying these needs. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 519

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up Glaude’s Deweyan frame that democracy is a living practice requiring constant reinvention, not a settled set of institutions.