Economy Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show · Burt Cohen
There’s No Conflict Between Commercialism and Idealism
April 2, 2024·57 min·5 clips
Professor McGinnis argues that America's commercial society created the ideological and economic conditions that made slavery an outlier and helped the North win the Civil War.
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A serious history conversation tying founders' money motives to the rules and trade fights that shaped democracy.
This conversation connects the American Revolution to money, trade, and the founders' economic interests, then carries that line through the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the fights over interstate commerce.
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