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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Can a document unify a nation? Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute and author of American Covenant argues that the Constitution unified the United States at the founding of the country and that understanding the Constitution can help bring the country together today. Listen as Levin speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how the Constitution not only took into account fractious politics, but also ensured that polarization would lead to a stronger democracy. Topics include the inherent limitations placed on the majority and how that affects policy formation, the vital if misunderstood advantages of the electoral college, and why, despite all the warnings to the contrary, this is far from a dangerous moment in American political history.
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One of the best episodes this year. Yuval Levin is a national treasure.
My input: The Commerce Clause has always been a quagmire but the Administrative State is a serious threat to our Constitutional system of “checks and balances.” Too much power in the Executive.
The Constitution was devised to make it difficult for anyone to get things done politically. The authors feared powered. Political competition differs from economic (business) competition by the absence in the former of a trade. In the latter, to get something someone else controls you have to convince them that you have something they'd rather have. Reciprocity. It's largely absent in politics. Indeed the motto in politics is, 'Don't get mad, get even.'.
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Is there a way to have a republic that protects the minority feom majority rool without devid8ng it by state? I think Israel needs such a constitution, but not devided by territory, I think Israel desperately needs a new constitution, I wonder how it can be formed.
59:00 The average American would disagree with this take.
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