Tag: American Founding

You’ve Got To Be Taught To Love: Cal Thomas

By Cal Thomas During a time when hate increasingly seems to be winning, Americans need to be taught how to love this great country. — Read on http://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/16/youve-got-to-be-taught-to-love/

What Is the Constitution For? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Bruce Frohnen The United States Constitution is important, and great, precisely because it recognizes that people and their rights are social by nature, and must remain rooted in their communities if we are to enjoy the benefits of ordered liberty under the rule… Continue Reading “What Is the Constitution For? ~ The Imaginative Conservative”

America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Robert R. Reilly That it is the founding principles themselves to which we can turn to recover from the great evils of slavery, of the loss of virtue and moral standard, and of grotesque dehumanization should be a measure of the gratitude we… Continue Reading “America Must Return to the Noble Traditions of Her Founders ~ The Imaginative Conservative”

The 1783 Treaty of Paris ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By American Delegates His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the… Continue Reading “The 1783 Treaty of Paris ~ The Imaginative Conservative”

Thomas Jefferson and “A Little Rebellion Now and Then” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Clyde Wilson Nowhere to be seen now are the old Jeffersonians, once a major American type: rebellious men who dared defend the rights of themselves and their communities from outside impositions. But buried somewhere deep in the American soul is a tiny ember… Continue Reading “Thomas Jefferson and “A Little Rebellion Now and Then” ~ The Imaginative Conservative”

Did the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Engage in a Treasonous Act? – Journal of the American Revolution

By Marvin L. Simner Did the Signers of the Declaration of Independence Engage in a Treasonous Act? – Journal of the American Revolution — Read on allthingsliberty.com/2021/08/did-the-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-engage-in-a-treasonous-act/

Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Kevin Gutzman The American Revolution proceeded simultaneously on two levels: the state and the federal. While federal reform was essential, and while Virginians took the lead in achieving it, the state-level activity of those years struck contemporaries as more important… — Read on… Continue Reading “Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic ~ The Imaginative Conservative”