By Will McLeod, New York
Their greatest fear was that one of these ideological factions might win out, destroy democracy, and impose their ideology nationwide.
Mr President, NO!
Americans like to go on about the genius of our founders, talking about a high minded attempt to create an enlightened government. That doesn’t really fit with history. When the founders wrote our Constitution, they came from a place of mutual distrust. At the time, they were dealing with the feuding interests of numerous religious groups, sectarian violence, and hatred between various groups over the question of whether people ought to be allowed to own other people.
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iScot Magazine April 2017 - issue 28
116 quality pages from THE ONLY TRULY INDEPENDENT PRO SCOTTISH MAGAZINE PUBLISHER HQ'd IN SCOTLAND.
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