Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
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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