Washington Examiner
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Julian Zelizer : No one is in charge in U.S. Constitution designed to balance elements of government perpetually in defiance of princes, physics, human nature.
He says the founders knew Cicero and Livy , but they also had recent British and French cases in mind.
Britain offered a case study in runaway republicanism, Zelizer says.
Zelizer asks: Who are the Cavaliers now, and who are the Roundheads ?.
The Democrats are replacing the American covenant with a postmodern version of the premodern, predemocratic society of orders.
Favored groups receive legal and racial privileges.
“Our democracy” means federal contracts for her friends and judicial trouble for yours.
The constitutional system was designed to prevent this kind of power grab.
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