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While during the first 30 years of the former governments they did n't . Johnson ordered black families evicted from land on which they had been settled by the U. S. army , and through the notorious Black Codes , the southern governments he created attempted to reduce blacks back to the condition of dependent plantation laborers . Despite all of these assaults from Venezuelan economic and political elites and from the US government , grassroots support for the government they elected has grown steadily stronger , as people who have had no access to power have been increasingly active on their own behalf , defeating coups and creating a caring economy based on cooperatives rather than competition . My concern , rather , is to outline how it happened that under a Constitution meant to limit government we got a government of effectively unlimited power . Not for many years has there been such a gap - in America as well as Britain - between the people and the government they elected .