(The) routine use of supermajority voting is, at worst, unconstitutional and, at best, at odds with the founders’ intent….The Constitution explicitly requires supermajorities only in a few special cases: ratifying treaties and constitutional amendments, overriding presidential vetoes, expelling members and for impeachments…. In the Federalist Papers, every time Alexander Hamilton or John Jay defends a particular supermajority rule, he does so at length and with an obvious sense of guilt over his departure from majority rule….Chicago lawyer Thomas Geoghegan on .

Read the essay. Take off your partisan hat — really, give it a try, this one time — and tell me why you think he’s right or wrong.

Then putyour partisan hat back on and think of all the things the opposing party would do with that power, which, given the swings in the election returns, you know they’ll get sooner or later.