Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2026

How our Founding Fathers fought the Barbary Pirates

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas , and offences against the law of...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Algernon Sidney influenced the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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“This book contains all the malice, and revenge, and treason, that mankind can be guilty of: It fixes the sole power in the parliament and t...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Founding Fathers strongly criticized Plato’s “Republic” (and for good reason)

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“Socrates had reason indeed to complain of the misrepresentations of Plato ; for in truth his dialogues are libels on Socrates.” –  Thomas J...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

A review of “The Declaration of Independence” (audiobook)

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“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

How did the Virginia Declaration of Rights influence the Bill of Rights?

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“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights , of which, when they enter into a state of...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Actually, John Locke DID influence the U. S. Declaration of Independence

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"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them wi...
Monday, April 13, 2015

A review of Ken Burns’ “Thomas Jefferson” (PBS)

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalie...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

A review of “Founding Brothers” (History Channel)

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

My favorite Western film (Lewis and Clark)

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I have seen a lot of great Westerns, but my favorite in the genre is not a  Hollywood film  at all, but a four-hour  Ken Burns  documentar...
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