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    1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      My piece is here... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/tax-bill-gop-democracy.html … Part of the founders' worry about straightforward majoritarian democracy was that it threatens property.

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    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      This is one of the reasons the franchise was restricted to land-owners early on. The unpropertied many would gang up and plunder the propertied few, was the worry. It's the old "two wolves & a sheep deciding what to have for dinner" idea. Amazingly, the propertied are the sheep.

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    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      But even restricting the franchise to property-owners wasn't good enough. Our anti-majoritarian electoral structure was crafted specifically to protect the "property" of slave-owning southerners by depriving numerically superior northern property-holders of fair electoral heft.

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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      The ratification of the Constitution, and thus the founding of union of states, required this. But you just can't argue that it embodied some kind of high-minded republican ideal.

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    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      Gouverneur Morris, at the convention, NAILED the outrage of the 3/5 compromise. When the man who literally drafted the text of Constitution could so clearly see what it amounted to, there's no excuse for contemporary revisionism about the principle at work. From Madison's notes:pic.twitter.com/wwEbXUjYb7

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    6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      The perverse, unstable, anti-republican distributive & political consequences of this weren't lost on Morris. He was so presciently clear about the danger of it, he preferred a tax to buy out slave-owners than to ruin the Constitution by fusing a corrupt feudal structure onto it.pic.twitter.com/XjhCtinUAg

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    7. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      It's either desperately naive or willfully ignorant to deny that the persisting anti-majoritarian elements of the Constitution were conditioned by the Southern delegation's demands to codify and politically protect agrarian slave-holding aristocracy.

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    8. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      The structure of the constitution is republican in that government is loosely representative, not monarchical. But granting superior representation to citizens of slave states with fewer eligible voters contradicts its explicit justification in the equality and rights of man.

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    9. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      The high-minded republican justification for property requirements on voting is that ownership promotes a kind of civic virtue and sensitivity to the conditions for general prosperity. The grubby realpolitik justification is property owners don't want their property voted away.

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    10. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 27 Aug 2019

      Our constitution reflects more of the grubby anti-redistributive impulse of founders who viewed human beings as property than high-minded republican notions about the civic virtue of the propertied class.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Aug 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson @jbouie

      Charles and Mary Beard tried to tell people this but the historical profession shouted them down, preferring myth.

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        2. Dr. Nicholas Mosvick‏ @nmosvick 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @willwilkinson @jbouie

          Graduate students, in my experience, still regularly read and encounter both the work of the Beards and the Beardian school that followed, as well as neo-Beardians like Woody Holton who's work is widely respected. The profession hardly has shouted them down.

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        3. Chris Henrichsen‏ @Chrishenrichsen 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @nmosvick @HeerJeet and

          I am a political scientist who teaches H.S. government. I reference Beard a fair amount. That doesn’t refute the point. I even mentioned him in a faculty discussion this morning. I am that fun.

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        2. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @willwilkinson @jbouie

          I feel like there's a mild danger in an overly stark frame pitting "redistribution" versus "small government" "property rights." The pre-tax distribution is also largely a social product.

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        3. Tim Sullivan‏ @MrTimbo 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @ThePlumLineGS @HeerJeet and

          I think about this a lot. When you drown the government in the bathtub, you're basically letting not the market but an arbitrary set of powerful people run your life.

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        2. Benjamin Fischer‏ @dickens432 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @willwilkinson @jbouie

          Wasn’t part of the issue that Charles beard went for a very crude formula that constitution reflected personal financial interests of founders?

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        3. Rorty stan account‏ @Adrian_Rutt 27 Aug 2019
          Replying to @dickens432 @HeerJeet and

          Right. I was gonna say: a) Beard’s thesis seemed a tad on the monocausal side i.e. crude, and b) shouted them down seems far too strong a phrase for a theory that still has some has some merit and a few followers, both casual and scholarly.

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