Tag: Republicanism
Thomas Jefferson Was Right ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Joseph Sobran It doesn’t take much imagination to guess what Thomas Jefferson would think of the U.S. government today, when its supposed “implied” powers are virtually infinite and nobody bothers measuring them against the powers expressly granted. When the federal government claims a… Continue Reading “Thomas Jefferson Was Right ~ 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”
Policing the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative
By Walter McDougall Benjamin Harrison insisted America’s truly dangerous enemies were not Great Powers abroad but a lapse of integrity and purity at home. He believed republicanism would spread in the world by “sympathy and emulation” and feared the harm Americans might do to… Continue Reading “Policing the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative”
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”
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