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FOUNDERS CORNER MAJOR WORKS Wednesday, January 23, 1788 Miscellaneous Powers Conferred by the Constitution Considered THE fourth class comprises the following miscellaneous powers: A power "to promote the...

American Debate Federalist Fisher Ames sends a draft treatise to a friend for review, in which he addresses the dangers he sees to the liberty...

FOUNDERS CORNER, MAJOR WORKS Saturday, January 12, 1788 Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising a Proper Form of Government and the Incoherence of the...

AMERICANIST HISTORY History of the United States, Vol. I, Ch. 12, by George Bancroft The Pilgrims Our narrative leads us to the manor-house of Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire,...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan of 9th President William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773. Harrison was an...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan of 9th President William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773. Harrison was an...

They Were Believers, Thomas Paine, 1776 Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance;...

They Were Believers, Thomas Paine, 1776 Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance;...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER The 20th Amendment changed the date of Presidential Inaugurations to JANUARY 20th. Prior to 1933, March 4th was Inauguration Day. FOREBODING...

Liberty Letters, Constitutional Convention of 1787 On June 1, 1787 in the early days of the Constitutional Convention the Founders entered upon a discussion of...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library  Aristotle: “Politics”, Book Three, Part 18, 350 B.C.E. We maintain that the true forms of government are three, and that the...

Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 52 Ancient Aristocratical Republics: Rome. Plebians scrambling after Patricians; or Democracy...

 The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Aristotle: “Politics”, Book Three, Part 14, 350 B.C.E. The preceding discussion, by a natural transition, leads to the consideration of royalty,...

Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 37 Ancient Monarchical Republics: TACITUS ON THE ANCIENT GERMANS Dear Sir, BEFORE...

Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 37 Ancient Monarchical Republics: TACITUS ON THE ANCIENT GERMANS Dear Sir, BEFORE...

Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 Ancient Republics and Opinions of Philosophers: POLYBIUS My dear Sir, MY design is more extensive than barely to shew the imperfection...

Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 Democratical Republics My dear Sir, "A SOCIETY of gods would govern themselves democratically," says the eloquent philosopher of Geneva; who however would...