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> authoritarianism has never worked.

Neither has democracy, depending on the definition of "worked". Try to narrow it down.

> The Constitution was designed to make the US Government as weak as possible

That is a premise, not a truism. Every democracy has, in time, given in to an appeal by the masses to (either by dupe or passively) give the government more power until it's not relatively weak.



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