2018 UCL Americas Neustadt Lecture on American Politics: David Sehat on the Founding Fathers

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Americans love the Founding Fathers, and American politicians constantly invoke them. Listen to American political debate for any length of time and you will hear the Founders enlisted in support of all manner of things: limited government, gun rights, progressive taxation, and more. But why do American politicians do this? And why does it work with the American electorate?

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