Oligarchies, Monopolies, and the Constitution
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Joyce Meyer is writing a book on the ancient wisdom that inspired the founder's quest for the good life. She describes how it was an aristotelian idea of cultivating happiness in a situation of economic equality that the founders haven't mind in, the saye, constitution. Madison wants to quell it cause he favors order, but while still maintaining an equality of conditions. By the end of the founding era, what had been a consensus about the need for economic equality calcifis in the rise of the federalist and republican democratic party into a party that's more openly in favor of producers and farmers in economic quality.
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