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"You're probably wondering how we're going to get this through Congress." Easy (but way too often overlooked - including by this video): The 17th Amendment went into effect earlier that very same year. What's the 17th Amendment, you ask? It changed how Senators were elected from being chosen by State legislatures to being elected by popular public vote. There's just no way that a Senate still accountable to the politicians of individual States would have okay'd a national central bank - relinquishing what had up until then been a power exclusively reserved to the individual States.
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Yes, some version of this less specific to USA. This is exactly what people need to see but a lot will just go "lucky we're not in USA" without realising we're under the same system. But hey, I mentioned the Australian constitution at school to the teacher once asking why we don't learn about it and got told I was stupid because only USA has a constitution so even if you made an Australian/anywhere else version probably still wouldn't get through to many people.