Enlisting the Average Citizen for Congressional Duty

Alex Horovitz
Aug 31, 2018 · 4 min read

AKA: Preserving our Democracy in our Information Age …

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ©1939 — Directed by Frank Capra

Democracy is inherently susceptible to public passions. The Founders understood such passions unchecked could lead to loss of liberty and ought right tyranny. In Federalist 10, James Madison warned “the friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he…

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