Carol Berkin
Born
in Mobile, Alabama, The United States
October 01, 1942
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“It was a government in which Congress rather than the president was assigned the responsibility of leading the nation.”
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
“Few of the delegates held a view of human nature any rosier than Madison’s, but most took pride in anticipating human frailties and taking steps to protect the nation against them. And”
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
“best, they felt, they might be able to forestall the inevitable decline into tyranny. “I am apprehensive,” wrote the normally optimistic Ben Franklin, “that the Government of these States, may in future times, end in a Monarchy. But this Catastrophe I think may be long delayed. . . .”
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
― A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
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