Saturday, July 04, 2015

Not Our Independence Day The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/hogeland-independence-day-american-revolution-socialist/

 Rather, it was the first chapter in an inter-imperial war between Great Britain and its dissident elites in North America. And the American state, even in its earliest incarnations, was more concerned with limiting popular democracy than securing and expanding it.

 

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