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“It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.”
Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments

“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

Sam Harris
“What constitutes a civil society? At minimum, it is a place where ideas, of all kinds, can be criticized without the risk of physical violence. If you live in a land where certain things cannot be said about the king, or about an imaginary being, or about certain books, because such utterances carry the penalty of death, torture, or imprisonment, you do not live in a civil society. It”
Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Despite being synonymous with the Senate, the filibuster was nowhere in the Framers’ vision for the institution, and indeed is antithetical to it.”
Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

“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

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