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As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22, the idea that a supermajority encouraged cooperation had proven deceptive: “What at first sight may seem a remedy, is, in reality, a poison.” Rather than encourage cooperation, he prophesied, the effect of requiring “more than a majority” would be “to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice or artifices” of a minority to the “regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.”
Fixing the Supreme Court is the only thing as important.
Opinion | Joe Biden May Have Only 2 Years to Get Things Done (Published 2021)
Democrats must kill the filibuster and make the Senate great again.
www.nytimes.com
Fixing the Supreme Court is the only thing as important.