287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

2332.594 - 2352.499 Jean-Paul Faguet

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Exactly. There were periods in American history during the expansion where there was a piece of land that, you know, a big like the state of New Mexico, where I am right now, had been claimed. But it was, you know, in the process of being occupied. But at some point it got occupied. And the state is very strong. It's decentralized. It's federal. It's highly robust.