June 25, 2010
"Charles Beard warned us that governments - including the government of the United States - are not neutral, that they represent the dominant interests, and that their constitutions are intended to serve those interests."

— Howard Zinn, “A People’s History of the United States”

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May 3, 2010
"Inasmuch as the primary object of a government, beyond the mere repression of physical violence, is the making of rules which determine the property relations of members of society, the dominent classes whose rights are thus to be determined must perforce obtain from the government such rules as are consonant with the larger interests necessary to the continuance of their economic processes, or they must themselves control the organs of government."

— “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution”, Charles Beard

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