The founders and the filibuster

Thomas Geoghegan writes a great op-ed in the NYT arguing that the filibuster “is, at worst, unconstitutional and, at best, at odds with the founders’ intent.”

-Jake

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January 11, 2010 · Filed Under Framers

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    Jacob Bronsther is a law student at NYU, a former Fulbright Scholar to Mauritius, and a graduate of Cornell University. He has an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford.

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