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How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas

How Democratic is the US Constitution? - Election 2020: UC Berkeley Big Ideas

Michael Mark Cohen

Date Date: September 9, 2020

Duration Duration: 103 minutes

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." As look at the history of American democracy, we begin with the nation's founding contradiction: the dispossession of Natives, the enslavement of Africans and the exclusion of women in a new nation dedicated to the radical concept of universal human equality.