America
Jon Stewart, 2004
A fake civics textbook that treats American democracy as a glorious, grubby, and very funny institutional mess.
Jon Stewart hosted The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015; America (The Book) was published in 2004 and became a #1 bestseller.
Feels like power, death and humor.
How do you write a founding document when someone keeps talking about his anatomy?
But on what basis should the three branches of government be divided? It came down to two dueling ideas: Madison’s proposal of an executive, judicial and legislative branch, and Georgia’s Joseph Morton’s proposal to dole out power according to, “The presence, forbearance, rectictude and largeosity of one’s ‘Plums and Carrot’.” After much deliberation, it was decided Madison’s proposal would be accepted, Morton only relenting after the Constitutional Convention agreed to proclaim him “impressive.” Jon Stewart, 2004
A fake civics textbook that treats American democracy as a glorious, grubby, and very funny institutional mess.
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