re: NPR comes to the realization that Civil War is indeed a possibility

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Not only is the Union in perpetuity, but even that the federal government would have more power than the confederated one.

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I've read every surviving letter exchanged between several key parties in the leadup to and during the constitutional convention. In the original English mind you.

Yes, they recognized the AoC was not going to work, but, they were scared shitless of giving the Fed too much power and spent a GREAT DEAL of time trying to come up with ways to constrict it.

Alas, they couldn't constrain future totalitarians like your people no matter how hard they tried.