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“The Framers were realists who wrote the Constitution in the shadow of the Articles of Confederation, the disastrously ineffective system of government that allowed a minority of members of Congress to block the majority from acting.”
― Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

“Nor during the Age of Innovation have the poor gotten poorer, as people are always saying. On the contrary, the poor have been the chief beneficiaries of modern capitalism. It is an irrefutable historical finding, obscured by the logical truth that the profits from innovation go in the first act mostly to the bourgeois rich.”
― Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

“To the Framers, a “republic” meant what we today call a democracy: a system where the people elect their representatives, who then write and vote on laws.”
― Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

“For Calhoun, minority rights were a cloak for the interests of the wealthy, the powerful, and most of all, the white supremacist.”
― Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy