Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

Why HN readers recommended it

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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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

AmericanRhetoric.com

Topic

us constitutional design

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I highly recommend watching this video [1] to understand why "progress has stalled". Believe it or not, it's by design. 1. [VIDEO]

• It depends on where you draw the line for acting in good faith. Justice Antonin Scalia's opening statement before a 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is worth watching. [VIDEO] Even more worth reading are the Federalist Papers, cover-to-cover, as he suggested. The depth to which …

• I wanted to add that, in the US, it isn't primarily the constitution that protects its freedoms, but rather the structure of their government and how it's been setup for gridlock among all the parties involved (not that that property has been preserved too well …