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Showing posts with label Madison. Show all posts
20 July 2024

Miracle at Philadelphia

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A review of sorts Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787  (1966...
29 June 2011

"small land holders are the most precious"

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One text always leads to another. As I continue my efforts to comprehend the incomprehensible, to probe into the foundations of the hyper-co...
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26 July 2009

Madison on Human Nature

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Celebrations of John Calvin's birthday have brought out a flurry of pronouncements of an old idea. Many Americans in the nineteenth cent...
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24 July 2009

Calvin and the Constitution

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History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...
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12 April 2008

Founders, Slavery, Public Schools

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In a coffee shop this week, I overheard criticism of public school teachers that nearly pulled me into a conversation that was mostly none o...
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