On Sept. 18, 1787, emerging from the four-month Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Dr. Franklin, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” According to the journal of James McHenry (Library of Congress), Franklin responded, “A republic, if you ...
That America’s Founders were brilliant men supported by equally strong women is beyond dispute. They created a framework for a new nation and a Constitution that, if obeyed, would provide protection from big government and ensure individual liberty on a scale unknown in the world at that ...
by Carla Hall If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and a safe abortion. A colleague once suggested to me that such phrasing wouldn’t have ...
In addition to being the revolutionaries who demanded independence from Great Britain and the visionaries who drafted the Constitution, many of America’s Founding Fathers were journalists. Some owned and published newspapers, others wrote for them, but all understood the value of a free ...
by Barbara Evans Fleischauer “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That is the text of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, proposed by our fourth president, ...