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Episode 85: Are We Living Madison’s Nightmare?
Season 1 Episode 85
Worries about mob rule have been around longer than our Constitution. Indeed, James Madison wrote about the problems of “factions” in what we’ve come to call the Federalist Papers. We like to think that our three branches of government with their checks and balances are impervious to the evils of faction. But today we may be living Madison’s nightmare. Join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they discuss this and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.
Show Notes
What it feels like to be Jeff Bezos
Foolishness of the Week
Outlawing sitting and lying down
Topic of the Week: Political factions and mob rule
Madison’s warning about mob rule
Federal debt as a fraction of GDP (1790 to 2050)
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