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Lord Macaulay once ventured the prediction that the Constitution would prove unworkable as soon as there were no longer large areas of undeveloped land and when the United States became a nation of great cities.
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Beck references Lord Macaulay's prediction about the Constitution's viability in urbanized America.
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