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throwaway85825today at 1:13 AM1 replyview on HN

America ended in 1861 when the era of political bargains transitioned to the era of the government and the subjects.


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fuzzfactortoday at 3:29 AM

with 20/20 hindsight it would have been a whole lot better to throw a Constitutional Convention rather than have a civil war.

It had already intentionally been forgotten how well that worked the first time.