Our Declaration

• Author: Clarissa Hayward,Suzanne Dovi
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/00905917221128890
• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Date: 01 February 2023
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Political Theory

2023, Vol. 51(1) 106 –111

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Our Declaration

Clarissa Hayward1 and

Suzanne Dovi2

Abstract

This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The

ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective

but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will

political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What

claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten,

twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate those

claims in their future contexts? How will the consistent concerns of political

theorists evolve into the questions critical for people decades or centuries

from now? What new problems will engage the political theorists (or their

rough equivalents) of the future? What forms might those take? What

follows is one of the many confabulations published in response to these

queries.

It is the sixth year of Donald J. Trump’s second term. In the United States, the

Civil Rights Acts, the Voting Rights Acts, and the Equal Employment

Opportunity Act have been repealed. Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, a

series of major Supreme Court cases were overturned, beginning with

Griswold v. Connecticut and followed in short order by Lawrence v. Texas,

1Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Corresponding Author:

Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis, MSC 1063-228-207, One Brookings

Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA.

Email: chayward@wustl.edu

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