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James Madison wrote: In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the chief difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. What did Madison mean by this and why is this? How did the Founders address this problem in the Constitution?
 
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In what ways did the Civil War and the Great Depression change the Constitution?
 
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