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5-4 x Bloc Party: Michael on How the Dems Flopped on Debt Relief
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The Role of the Supreme Court in American History
The crisis of democracy in the 1850s, centering around slavery, and also the crisis of the Depression in the 1930s. In both those eras, President Lincoln and President Roosevelt FDR had very complicated, thorny, and often oppositional relationships to the Supreme Court. The phrase that stuck with me forever that I learned in middle school or high school was that in America we have majority rule with minority rights. That is at odds with almost the entire history of how the Supreme Court has actually functioned,.
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