The Founding Fathers' 1787 Blueprint: How the U.S. Constitution Camouflaged an Oligarchy as a Republic

In this episode, we peel back the patriotic mythology of the Philadelphia convention to investigate how a panicked coalition of wealthy speculators allegedly executed a bloodless, locked-door coup by engineering an impenetrable legal labyrinth of structural bottlenecks and rhetorical sleight-of-hand purportedly designed to safeguard elite financial empires while leaving the American public with a carefully managed illusion of democratic control.