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The Study of Administration (1887), by Woodrow Wilson, sets the stage for the bureaucracies that would follow it a little over a dozen years after it's publication. Starting roughly in the 20th century, the progressive era saw the explosive growth of administrative agencies lacking any oversight whatsoever, a malady we suffer under to this day over 120 years later. Unique among all generations of Americans before them, the progressives hated the United States Constitution, and Administration was their answer once and for all to get around this pesky obstacle we have all come to know and love.

Frederick Douglass defends the Constitution. Many abolitionists in his day had misguided views about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Douglass was ready to set them straight. This is a direct reproduction of a speech from 1860, while Douglass was on a speaking tour in Glasgow, Scotland. He gave two speeches of very similar content: "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery" and "The American Constitution and the Slave". This recording is open source in the public domain and is free for anybody to copy and share. For more information, visit Librivox.org