Re:What Is a Jeffersonian Dinner Party?
by mlyle on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @03:12PM
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> Their version of polarization produced the enduring document that is the American Constitution.
> Thus, there’s some precedent that political polarization can produce world-class governance, if you can only figure out a way to still work together.
I don't think their era generated world-class governance. The actual machinery of government and its employment was clumsy and erratic.
The product of the era was world-class philosophical and experimental improvements in the theory of government that allowed better governance later.
> Thus, there’s some precedent that political polarization can produce world-class governance, if you can only figure out a way to still work together.
I don't think their era generated world-class governance. The actual machinery of government and its employment was clumsy and erratic.
The product of the era was world-class philosophical and experimental improvements in the theory of government that allowed better governance later.