"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast
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The Constitutional Convention - The Fugitive Slave Act
What ultimately emerges is a minority of already powerful people with tremendous veto power over the whole process. And it's everybody has to compromise with slaveholders, race, the slaveholding states. The fugitive slave act was a pure power move on the part of southern slaveholders who they are a small minority of the overall population of the country. But they used their leverage to say, you're going to give us stuff like this, or we're just going to walk and you're not going to have a country.
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