Nancy MacLean *Democracy in Chains* The Right's Plan to Rule

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5. A compelling segment that caught many people's atttention,

especially MacLean's mention of plans to make changes to the US Constitution through a constitutional convention which hasn't been held since 1787.

Bill Maher show guest Nancy MacLean on 'The GOP's Long Game', the Koch agenda and more. The Duke Univ. professor of history and author discusses her newest book, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" (2017). Aug. 3, 2018.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1017504712

"We're Surprisingly Close to Our First Constitutional Convention Since 1787. Bad Idea," Washington Post, 4/06/17.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-surprisingly-close-to-a-new-constitutional-convention-bad-idea/2017/04/06/f6d5b76a-197d-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html?utm_term=.fc4408756645



George Washington presides at the Constitutional Convention, 1787. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration.