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The Founding Fathers Were Scoundrels!
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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2114990" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>from a chris hedges article:</p><p></p><p>The framers of the Constitution established a series of mechanisms to <strong>thwart the popular will</strong>, from the electoral college to the appointment of senators, buttressed by the disenfranchisement of African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the landless. George Washington, probably the wealthiest man in the country when the war was over—much of his money was earned by speculating on seized Indian land—shared exclusive economic and political power with his fellow aristocrats. This distrust of popular rule among the elite runs in a straight line from The Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the 2000 presidential election, where the Democratic candidate, Al Gore, received over half a million more popular votes than the Republican George W. Bush</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2114990, member: 56035"] from a chris hedges article: The framers of the Constitution established a series of mechanisms to [B]thwart the popular will[/B], from the electoral college to the appointment of senators, buttressed by the disenfranchisement of African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the landless. George Washington, probably the wealthiest man in the country when the war was over—much of his money was earned by speculating on seized Indian land—shared exclusive economic and political power with his fellow aristocrats. This distrust of popular rule among the elite runs in a straight line from The Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the 2000 presidential election, where the Democratic candidate, Al Gore, received over half a million more popular votes than the Republican George W. Bush [/QUOTE]
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