like some retard is trying too hard

shad

man

>shadman

Men of Shad

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This cycle reflects Cole's pessimism, and is often seen as a commentary on Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. (Note, for instance, the military hero at the centre of "Consummation.") However, some Democrats had a different theory of the course of empire. They saw not a spiral or cycle but a continuing upward trajectory. Levi Woodbury, a Democrat and a justice of the United States Supreme Court, for instance, responded to Cole by saying that there would be no destruction in the United States
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I-I-It won't happen!!!!!

yeah thomas cole was an artistic genius

if you note the small details in each image

painting

you can see the beginning of decadence

in consumation

very strange how profoundly aware of history the founders were and how ignorance had already penetrated the supreme court only a generation later

it's real fuckin good

im hurt

seems like america has been declining since around 1800

but i doubt americans will be able to compute that until at least 200 years from now

@F-Star did you know the founders actually thought that the constitution wouldnt last long

they knew

no they didn't

learned about this when i took AP government

i think it was ben franklin who answered the question of what kind of country are you leaving for us

saying "a republic, if you can keep it"

the idea for the american government has always been to be a republic

ehh idk

but they thought that the constitution would end up like the Articles of Confederation at some point

would be replaced and thrown out

there were the federalists and the antifederalists

some people think america should have stopped at the articles of confederation

yeah

and seeing constitution as it is today, i think they were right

the officials of the states were actually tricked into writing a new constitution

they didn't call for a constitutional assembly at first

and fucking george washington

imagine being such a chad that people gathered together just bc you were involved

the guy was a complete badass

he was a popular politician

http://www.michaeltsarion.com/constitution-con.html

What's nebuliac