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It was 1776. The US was a baby nation-state. It was very proud of itself for its radical new democracy, the first, it was claimed, since the ancient Greeks. Great decision-making power was conferred to…white men who owned property, except for Jews, Catholics, and Quakers. Ugh. Sure, some states allowed Jewish, or Catholic, or Quaker More

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