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...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Real American Revolution

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From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles,  February 13, 1818 Mr Niles,  The American Revolution was not a trifling or common Event. It’s Effects a...
Friday, March 29, 2024

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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“In America we may reasonably hope that the people will never cease to regard the right of keeping and bearing arms as the surest pledge of ...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Statue of Freedom (U.S. Capitol)

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“Affixed at the top of the United States Capitol, “Statue of Freedom is a classical female figure with long, flowing hair wearing a helmet w...