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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - Hanging By a Prayer
Description: A few weeks ago, I asked the question, exactly which Framers’ values and principles should we “be getting back to?”
As the Convention lurched into the sixth week, and the heat in Philadelphia grew hotter, the delegates were – at least verbally – at each others throats. while the myth of unity still held in the media and even in sermons, the truth was that the convention was literally held together byt he strength of a “single human hair.”
Madison thought he had an answer, and Washington fumed over “States Rights Demagogues.” Benjamin Franklin famously suggested that each session start...