{"id":3189,"date":"2021-06-11T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2021-06-11T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:06:51","slug":"the-making-of-a-nationalizing-i-e-centralizing-and-democracy-constraining-i-e-anti-populist-u-s-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/11\/the-making-of-a-nationalizing-i-e-centralizing-and-democracy-constraining-i-e-anti-populist-u-s-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of a nationalizing (i.e., centralizing) and democracy-constraining (i.e., anti-populist) U. S. Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/klarman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/klarman.jpg 313w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/klarman-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 85vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKuimRUJV3A\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>&#8220;Well, the lack of influence goes back in the United States roughly two hundred fifty years. So, we can start with the Constitution, which was established explicitly on the principle of preventing democracy. There wasn\u2019t any secret about it. In fact, the major scholarly study on the Constitutional Convention, by Michael Klarman, a Harvard Law professor, is called <i>The Framers\u2019 Coup<\/i>, and it\u2019s about the coup against democracy by the Framers.\n<\/p><p>\nThe theme of the of the founders was expressed quite well by John Jay, who was the first Supreme Court chief justice: \u201cthose who own the country ought to govern it.\u201d That\u2019s what we see today: those who own the country have succeeded in governing it.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Noam Chomsky, <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/06\/noam-chomsky-class-war-universal-health-care-climate-justice-denuclearization\">Noam Chomsky: The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time<\/a>, Jacobin, June 10, 2021.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Well, the lack of influence goes back in the United States roughly two hundred fifty years. So, we can start with the Constitution, which was established explicitly on the principle of preventing democracy. There wasn\u2019t any secret about it. In fact, the major scholarly study on the Constitutional Convention, by Michael Klarman, a Harvard Law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/11\/the-making-of-a-nationalizing-i-e-centralizing-and-democracy-constraining-i-e-anti-populist-u-s-constitution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The making of a nationalizing (i.e., centralizing) and democracy-constraining (i.e., anti-populist) U. S. Constitution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}