Doctor Historianess on Nostr: Look, folks. #historian here. The Founders (ugh, I hate that term but that's not the ...
Look, folks. #historian here. The Founders (ugh, I hate that term but that's not the issue here) were Whigs.
They came out of a seventeenth-century commonwealth tradition that emphasized Parliamentary supremacy.
Because they were very sensitive to corruption and the possibility of tyranny, they would have watched the development of the postwar presidency with trepidation.
Worth remembering that seventeenth-century Englishmen killed a king they found too tyrannical.
#Trump #CharlesI
They came out of a seventeenth-century commonwealth tradition that emphasized Parliamentary supremacy.
Because they were very sensitive to corruption and the possibility of tyranny, they would have watched the development of the postwar presidency with trepidation.
Worth remembering that seventeenth-century Englishmen killed a king they found too tyrannical.
#Trump #CharlesI