Saturday, March 30, 2013

Abigail to John Adams March 31, 1776

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"I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you; and tell me if you may where your Fleet are gone? What sort of D...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Thomas Jefferson’s Misunderstood “Letter to the Danbury Baptists”

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On January 1, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson received a thirteen-foot mammoth cheese weighing some 1,200 pounds.  It was delivere...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Conscience is the Most Sacred of Property: James Madison’s Essay on Property

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By: Tony Williams On January 24, 1774, James Madison wrote to a college friend praising the Boston Tea Party, which had occurred only week...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics & American Republican Government

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After George Washington was sworn-in as the first president of the new American republic on April 30, 1789, he delivered his First Ina...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Lincoln & Jefferson

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By: J. David Gowdy On February 12th we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. He once said: “I have never had a feeling politically that ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Teaching the Bill of Rights

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The Washington, Jefferson & Madison Institute's next semi-annual educational seminar will be on the subject of “The Bill of Right...
Monday, January 14, 2013

A Brief History of the Bill of Rights

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“The original Constitution, as proposed in 1787 in Philadelphia and as ratified by the states, contained very few individual rights guaran...