Founding Documents: The Constitution
Civics 101
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The Excess of Democracy in the Constitution
Woody Holton, historian and author of Unruly Americans: Excess of democracy. He says that under the Articles of Confederation, the states were masters of their own destiny. The people who wrote the Constitution did not write it to make the country more free,. They wrote it to get the country out of a recession because debts weren't being paid," he says.
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