Jesse Wegman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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You know, obviously, the Constitution as it was written barred any intrusion on the slave trade
for 20 years after its ratification.
But as we know, that fight would continue on into the middle of the 19th century and lead to the Civil War, which resulted in the deaths of more than half a million people.
And it was only then that slavery was actually banished from the Constitution.
Wilson did oppose slavery, but he was willing to live with it as the price of a Constitution that
with the other elements that he wanted so badly.
I mean, one of the reasons I wrote the Electoral College book back in 2020 was the election twice in the century to that point of the person who won fewer votes.
That's a fundamental violation of majority rule, right?
You know, majority rule is at the heart of Wilson's
theory of government.
Why?
Because majority rule is the only way that we ensure political equality.
It's the only way that you count all votes as equal.
Any other method, by definition, counts some votes as worth more than others.
So, you know, this violation of majority rule, I think, is at the heart of so much of what ails us today.
You know, both George W. Bush in 2000,
And then Donald Trump in 2016 were elected to the White House with fewer votes than their opponent.
And I really think that there's a toxin there, that people feel that their wishes as a majority are not being represented.
And that leads to all these other problems that we see every day now.
I think the Senate itself is obviously a – by design, a non-majoritarian institution.
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