The American experiment failed because people were unwilling to go to the lengths necessary to preserve the republic. I think it has a lot to do with the country being too big for a federalist style government. People are too far removed from the center of power, literally and figuratively. A confederacy (supremacy of the states) would have helped a lot.
The American experiment failed because people were unwilling to go to the lengths necessary to preserve the republic. I think it has a lot to do with the country being too big for a federalist style government. People are too far removed from the center of power, literally and figuratively. A confederacy (supremacy of the states) would have helped a lot.
I tend to agree there. Decentralization of power should have been our instinct and not the exception.
I tend to agree there. Decentralization of power should have been our instinct and not the exception.
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