athenian assembly: In reality, our un-democratic constitutional bulwarks temper the vagaries of the majority, according to MSNBC. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, James Madison quipped, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. This is, no doubt, disorientating for voters who grew up believing they live in a democracy. The left will mock you for making this obvious observation. MSNBC's Chris Hayes, for instance, recently took some heat from conservatives for claiming that the weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn't specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional. Yet many progressives don't seem to understand the distinction between united states and a united state.
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