James Madison
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James Madison is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 18, 2021 and July 07, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “And as the work of titans like George Washington and James Madison and so on”; “minutes were not published until the death of James Madison in 1840”. It most often appears alongside United States, Abdullah Gul, Academy Awards.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 18, 2021
- Last seen: July 07, 2023
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- Abdullah Gul (1 shared issues)
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- Academy Awards (1 shared issues)
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- Ak (1 shared issues)
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- AKP (1 shared issues)
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- Alberto Parmigiani (1 shared issues)
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- Anatolian (1 shared issues)
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- Ankara (1 shared issues)
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- Ansolabehere (1 shared issues)
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- Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1 shared issues)
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- Ataturk (1 shared issues)
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- Atlantic Institute (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The third big difference is that it's really hard to change the US Constitution. Erdogan was able to change the Turkish Constitution with a simple majority. Nobody took it too seriously, because the Constitution was just whatever the last group of military-coup-pulling generals said it was. The US Constitution requires a lot more work. And as the work of titans like George Washington and James Madison and so on, it has an aura of sacredness that makes it hard to add "PS: I can do whatever I want" to the end without a lot of people feeling violated. I know this has caused a lot of problems, but after seeing the ease with which Erdogan swept aside any part of the Turkish Constitution he didn't like, I have a new respect for it.
The United States actually began with secret deliberation. The Constitutional Convention was held entirely in secret. The public was not allowed to observe, the doors and windows were sealed, and the minutes were not published until the death of James Madison in 1840. Deliberating in this manner had a number of desirable effects.