S4 E2: "The Excess of Democracy"
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Did the Constitution Reigned in Democracy?
i just felt like in my history class, as we rushed through everything that happened before the constitution was the real, meaningful beginning. But it turns out that the articles of confederation were too democratic for lot of powerful people at the time. So in fact, the constitution was more about reigning in democracy than it was about expanding or codifying it. And i would have been like, who cares? Because i would hav been like, the point is they we're all slaveholders.
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