• @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    The founders were not a monolith and had mega-disagreements about how to proceed from day 1.

    • Liz
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      51 year ago

      “okay, we’re not gonna have political parties, right guys?”

      Immediately form federalist and anti-federalist factions

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Sure, and they still managed to pass the alien and sedition acts. Saying they weren’t a monolith is a way of dismissing the mountain of evidence that suggests that, for most of them, participation in the democratic process of an inchoate American republic was intended only for a small segment of the population - literate (i.e. wealthy) white men. I’d suggest A People’s History of the United States if you want a better perspective on that.