How do you figure?https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1121473537833881600 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
First part. I’m not sure it’s got a historical basis, and “an idea with a people” (rather than the reverse) is at all what the Founders intended.
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Replying to @davereaboi
One, the ideas existed back to the 17th century, when the land was first filling with people. Two, the Founders absolutely envisioned major immigration to help fill the open spaces of the frontier as we moved west. (Didn't mean they were against any restrictions ever.)
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Replying to @Indian_Bronson @davereaboi
The demographics of the U.S. population in 1965 would already have been scarcely recognizable to the Framers.
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Replying to @Indian_Bronson @davereaboi
Almost nobody on earth thought, in 1790, that Italians, Irish, Germans & Slavs were the same "people" as WASPs. White, perhaps. But not a singular people.
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I deny none of that. Franklin's dim view of Germans, dating back to the 1750s, illustrates my point. They wanted some limits, but they did not see the country as a single, static, homogenous people.
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