In the month of August I issued proposals for publishing the “Liberator” in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public
This document reflects both the radical urgency of the movement and its broader goal of transforming American society by aligning it with its professed democratic and Christian principles.
Highlights Franklin’s early wit and satire, from Mrs. Silence Dogood letters to playful scientific proposals, influencing humorists like Twain and Rogers.
A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read
We proceed now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government. In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and necessity of a federal judicature
Summarizes Coolidge’s rise to the presidency and his 1926 July 4th speech praising the Declaration, religion, and national unity.
In the Address, Lincoln answered the question as to the purpose of the death and destruction of the Civil War when he spoke at the dedication ceremony for the cemetery where the Union dead of Gettysburg were buried.
In Federalist No. 51, Madison argues liberty is protected by separating powers so ambition checks ambition within a balanced constitutional system.
After full experience of the insufficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are invited to deliberate on a New Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its
Nowhere were the novel, and transcendental, implications of the Declaration so visible as in Jefferson’s attempt to include a denunciation of slavery.
