Status Updates From A People's History of the U...

"Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one which kept things as they were, a balance among the dominant forces at that time" (pg 101)

State as a crystallization of a specific relation during moment of rupture. Reminds me of the TYBW arc. Especially Soul Reapers being known balancers and associated with the SK right arm

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.