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So often my students come to the course with no understanding that our Founders were against the idea of establishing a Democracy. Perhaps only Ben Franklin was at least warm to the idea; later Thomas Jefferson wrote in ways that suggested he too was warm to a Democracy, though later in his life, he complained…
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You probably know the rest of that phrase, huh? Had a simple experience with the concept that also provides an example to you (and me) about letting worry get the best of you. Background is that I got a natural bent for worry from my mother…bless her heart, she can worry with the best…
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Well, the fall of Rome serves to remind us that complex societies can, and do, break down. There is rarely one reason. Rather, there are multiple causes that come together in a perfect storm, as they did around 400AD. But in time society recovers, for societies after all are made by people, and one guesses…