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Battle for the Constitution: Week of March 22nd, 2021 Roundup

March 26, 2021 | by NCC Staff

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The Whole Point Was to Avoid Mob Violence

By Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO, National Constitution Center

Jeffrey Rosen argues that the governmental structure the Founders set up, and their own political and moral philosophy, was aimed at preventing mob violence and passions overcoming reason—and that, today, we need civic education to help realize the Founders’ goal.

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