They wanted to make it so hard that it's very, very difficult, as we just saw in the House, for a purely partisan effort to work. And that's by design. I mean, They wanted to avoid dictatorship by creating a machine so hard to work that we can barely get it to work voluntarily. Well, I appreciate it. And you have a chapter in the book, you talk about the 250th anniversary and our pride and the best of Greek democracy and the Roman Republic. (31:30–31:38)
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