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Democracy an Chains, by Charles Coke and James Buchanan
The title of my book to democracy an chains. It was actually a language that buchanan himself used, this language of enchaining ind speaking of the demos needing to be enchained. For a hard corps libertarian like james buchanan or charles coke, democratic government is necessarily a problem. So what koke got from buchanan was a strategy for how to reverse that through incremental changes in the rules that most people wouldn't even notice until it was too late. The spate of laws in states dominated by this coke backed, coke transformed republican party to suppress voting. There's been a significant focus on African American voters but they have also aimed at young
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