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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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