idea im turning over dignified institutions: Congress, presidency efficient institutions: courts, bureaucracy here of course I use these descriptors in strict parallel to Bagehot. and extremely not in their casual sense
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and in the process crowded out (technical term) small-s society from a huge number of places displacing it with State in the Seeing Like a State sense, roughly destroying a robust organic national fabric
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it also destroyed the Constitution as a document that existed to constrain government and we rapidly moved from needing a literal Amendment to ban alcohol to just prohibiting everything you can imagine without even a vote it also gave us Wickard v Filburn, check it out
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