{"id":2402,"date":"2026-06-10T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:35:45","slug":"more-than-70-percent-of-us-voters-believe-nation-is-in-a-constitutional-crisis-pell-center-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"More than 70 percent of US voters believe nation is in a constitutional crisis, Pell Center survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>PROVIDENCE \u2013 More than 70 percent of registered voters in the United States believe the nation is in a constitutional crisis, including the vast majority of Democrats and nearly half of Republicans, according to a new national survey by The Pell Center at Salve Regina University released on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2400\">Trump signs bill giving nearly $70 billion to his immigration enforcement agenda through end of his term<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>More than 2,000 voters were polled in early May and asked about their views on political institutions, democracy, media, and members of the opposing political party, \u201cas well as a series of questions used to measure authoritarian attitudes,\u201d according to a report on the findings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The survey is the fifth installment of the Newport, R.I.-based center\u2019s \u201cVoices of Value\u201d project that works to break down the nuances of political polarization. The poll was fielded by Embold Research and has a margin of error of 2.2 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Rhode Map<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>According to the findings, 73 percent of registered voters polled indicated they \u201cstrongly\/somewhat agree\u201d the United States is in a constitutional crisis, while 24 percent indicated they \u201cstrongly\/somewhat disagree.\u201d Another 3 percent were not sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, 95 percent of Democrats agreed with the question, as did 79 percent of independents, the survey results show. Forty-eight percent of Republicans indicated they also agreed, although another 48 percent said they disagreed, and 3 percent were not sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cAmericans remain deeply divided on the basic state of American democracy itself,\u201d The Pell Center researchers said in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sixty-one percent of Democrats agreed that \u201cthe United States is a dictatorship,\u201d compared to only 5 percent of Republicans and 47 percent of independents, the survey results show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMost Americans believe the United States is facing a constitutional crisis, but stark differences in opinion between Republicans and Democrats on the health of U.S. democracy exist,\u201d according to the report. \u201cOver 9 in 10 Democrats agree the United States is in a constitutional crisis. Though nearly half of Republicans agree, over half believe the U.S. has a strong system of checks and balances (55 percent) and that the economy is thriving (65 percent).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By contrast, among Democrats, only 6 percent felt that way about the economy, and only 20 percent agreed the government has \u201ca strong system of checks and balances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The survey also revealed a deep partisan divide over US Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices: 80 percent of Republicans indicated they support ICE officers \u201cregularly conducting surveillance and arrests at sensitive locations like schools, hospitals, places of worship, and social service locations,\u201d compared to only 2 percent of Democrats. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2398\">Boston hotels were expecting a World Cup gold mine. It might not be coming.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Seventy-four percent of Republicans also said they would support stripping US citizens of their citizenship and deporting them \u201cif they are determined to be a threat to the country,\u201d and only 12 percent of Democrats supported that sentiment, the findings show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The survey also placed respondents on an \u201cauthoritarian scale,\u201d based on their answers to \u201ceight questions about child-rearing values,\u201d the report states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRespondents chose between two desirable traits for children (for example, independence vs. respect for others; disciplined vs. adaptable; loyal vs. open-minded),\u201d the report states. \u201cThe scale measures authoritarianism attributes which can occur in both conservatives and progressives and because the questions are not about politics, they are partially exogenous to political preference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The survey found \u201cAmericans with the strongest authoritarian attitudes are more likely to support political actions that violate democratic norms,\u201d including \u201cignoring court decisions, censoring media sources, and changing election rules to disadvantage the political opposition,\u201d according to the center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While most Americans generally do not support those violations, \u201chigher levels of authoritarianism are associated with conservative political identification,\u201d the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the survey, of those who scored high on the scale, 80 percent were Republican or leaned Republican, 37 percent identified as MAGA, and 48 percent as conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Overall, \u201csupport for democratic norm violations remains relatively low,\u201d the center said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s heartening that so few Americans support actions which run counter to core democratic values, but I continue to be concerned that Americans are evaluating the same political system through very different lenses,\u201d Pell Center Associate Director and Fellow Katie Sonder said in a statement. \u201cAmericans are assessing democratic health, institutional effectiveness, and economic conditions along partisan lines, making it increasingly difficult to build a shared understanding of reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2396\">Boston extends summer operating hours for bars, restaurants<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of Democrats and nearly half of Republicans agreed the nation is in a crisis, according to the survey released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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