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Bessette/Pitney’s AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP reviews the idea of "deliberative democracy." Building on the book, this blog offers insights, analysis, and facts about recent events.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

"The Only Path to a Subversion"

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Alexander Hamilton, Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration, 18 August 1792: The truth unquestionably is, that the only path...

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Venerating the Constitution, Taking the Oath of Citizenship

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Federalist 49 discusses " that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without wh"ich perhaps the wisest and freest gov...

Monday, March 21, 2016

The Founders Warned Us Against People Like Trump

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Peter Wehner writes at The New York Times : Before the Constitutional Convention, Madison undertook an extraordinarily thorough study of ...

Sunday, March 13, 2016

The Donald and the Founders

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Michael Gerson writes at The Washington Post : Trump is the guy your Founding Fathers warned you about . “The question is not ‘Why Trump...

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