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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (16 children)

Don’t forget they were also terrified of democracy. The Senate is one of the most comically anti-democratic institutions ever concocted. Wyoming has as much power as California. I mean it beggars belief that anyone but a complete imbecile could agree to something like that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's not democratic from a person level, but it is more democratic from a state level. At the time they hadn't quite figured out if they wanted to be a country or a collection of states that sometimes work together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The first two political parties were formed around that very debate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Too bad Jefferson didn't rap.

Just had that fever.

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