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Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism
AmericanRhetoric.com
Justice Antonin Scalia's opening statement at a 2011 Senate Judiciary hearing on the role of judges. He argues that the Constitution's separation of powers is what protects liberty, and that gridlock is by design.
Recommended often as a clear explanation of why the US system is built to be slow and why gridlock protects minorities.
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