Sunday, March 9, 2025

The Constitutional Freedom of Speech

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Fifty years before the Constitution was adopted, in November 1737, Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Benjamin Franklin "On True Happiness"

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Benjamin Franklin said, “virtue and happiness are mother and daughter” (Poor Richard's Almanac). He believed that real happiness was not...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Glorious Cause of America

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By: David McCullough (1933-2022) Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of  “ 1776 ”  and  “ John Adams, ”  gave this address at Brigham ...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

The "Revolution" of 1800

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The presidential election of 1800 was an intense political contest. Pitting two clearly opposing parties against each other for the first ti...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The Great Pillars of Human Happiness: Religion, Virtue, and Republican Liberty

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By: Tony Williams In his First Inaugural Address as the first President of the new United States, George Washington echoed the Puritan idea ...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

J. Reuben Clark, Jr. and the Constitution

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Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. was born on September 1, 1871 in Grantsville, Utah to Joshua Reuben Clark and Mary Louisa Wolley Clark. He grad...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

John Quincy Adams and the Amistad case, 1841

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 “On July 1, 1839, fifty-three Africans, recently kidnapped into slavery in Sierra Leone and sold at a Havana slave market, revolted on boar...