founding fathers

American Minute with Bill Federer He was the only person to sign all four of what are considered America's founding documents: -Articles of Association, 1774; -Declaration of...

THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP … the legislature is likely to establish a marine hospital at New Orleans, where we lose about 400. boatmen & seamen annually...

BY DAVID BARTON Easter is celebrated across the world as one of the most significant Christian holy days -- as a time when we pause...

American Minute with Bill Federer He was the only person to sign all four of America's founding documents: Articles of Association-1774, Declaration of Independence-1776, Articles of Confederation-1777, U.S. Constitution-1787. Who...

Background of the American Revolution In prepartion for war, the members of the Second Continental Congress bind themselves to secrecy. … and that if any member...

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: MAJOR WORKS Tuesday, March 11, 1788 Hamilton compares presidential power to temporarily fill vacancies in the Senate to similar powers exercised by state...

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: LETTERS, SAMUEL ADAMS Boston, May 14, 1768 TO DENNYS DE BERDT Sir— By Mr Edward Church a Passenger in Capt Wilson who sailed the 24th...

American Minute with Bill Federer "Done...the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." This is the...

BY ALAN CARUBA “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on...

LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL George Chapman observed, in 1605, “Young men think old men are fools.” So do American progressives young and old. They...

FOUNDERS CORNER: MAJOR WORKS Saturday, February 2, 1788 Method of Guarding Against the Encroachments of Any One Department of Government by Appealing to the People Through...

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: MAJOR WORKS Friday, February 1, 1788 These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other IT...

Background of the American Revolution Samuel Adams—in his typical style—questions the wisdom of quartering troops among the civil population. But, to be called to account by...

NELSON LUND, PH.D., HERITAGE FOUNDATION Abstract Contemporary debates about the meaning of the Second Amendment—is it a collective right or an individual right?—would have been incomprehensible...

NELSON LUND, PH.D., HERITAGE FOUNDATION Abstract Contemporary debates about the meaning of the Second Amendment—is it a collective right or an individual right?—would have been incomprehensible...

LIBERTY LETTERS WITH STEVE FARRELL Aldolf Hitler taught: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" Maybe you've...

MARK W. HENDRICKSON, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Is God a Democrat? A Republican? Was Jesus a conservative, liberal, socialist, or libertarian? Those are jarring questions....

THEY WERE BELIEVERS, JOHN ADAMS Honesty, sincerity, and openness I esteem essential marks of a good mind. I am, therefore, of opinion that men ought,...

BY SAMUEL LANGDON Called Unto Liberty, Founding Era Sermons, 1788 A native of Boston, Langdon was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1740 with Samuel...

They Were Believers, James Madison Reflecting on the miracle that occurred in the writing and approval of the proposed U.S. Constitution by the delegates at...

They Were Believers, James Madison Reflecting on the miracle that occurred in the writing and approval of the proposed U.S. Constitution by the delegates at...

THEY WERE BELIEVERS, STEVE FARRELL Was Thomas Jefferson an enemy of God? Numerous anti-Christian cynics feel certain, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that the answer...

FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY, U.S HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Virginia Declaration of Rights June 12, 1776 Editor's Note: George Mason is thought to be the documents principle author. The declaration...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON The doctrine of legal positivism may seem to us to be an irrelevant, abstruse philosophical exercise confined to the ivory towers...

LIBERTY LETTERS, JOHN ADAMS, 1756 One of the most diabolical features of our present dumbed-down, secularized, and thoroughly corrupted educational system in the United States...

LIBERTY LETTERS, JOHN ADAMS, 1756 One of the most diabolical features of our present dumbed-down, secularized, and thoroughly corrupted educational system in the United States...

They Were Believers, John Adams, 1756 Saturday. Attended Mrs. Brown’s funeral. Let this and every other instance of human frailty and mortality prompt me to...

They Were Believers, John Adams, 1756 Saturday. Attended Mrs. Brown’s funeral. Let this and every other instance of human frailty and mortality prompt me to...

They Were Believers, John Adams Nature and truth, or rather truth and right are invariably the same in all times and in all places; and...

THEY WERE BELIEVERS WITH STEVE FARRELL All my time seems to roll away unnoticed. I long to study sometmes, but have no opportunity. I long...