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Episode 731: Would the Founding Fathers Have Embraced Having Unfettered Power for the Presidency? Not Likely.
Brian is away today, so we’re rebroadcasting a report from last July, which is particularly apt for the shattering of the norms of the presidency we’ve witnessed in the first weeks of the Trump second term.
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Would the Founding Fathers Have Embraced Having Unfettered Power for the Presidency? Not Likely.
Anti-authoritarian feelings ran high in the years before and after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, as the Declaration’s litany of complaints against the King suggests. So it’s unlikely the founding fathers…
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