On April 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal judge who could help cement a conservative majority on the bench for decades, to the Supreme Court. In order to better understand what this could mean for future court rulings, below is an excerpt from The Heritage Foundation’s review of Judge Gorsuch. Excellent Choice for […]
If America is to avoid bankruptcy and preserve the civil liberties of its citizens, then the citizens must use the power of the constitution to restrain its government. Too many have embraced the idea that government power should not only provide safety from foreign threats, but also personal threats of poor health, poverty, offense, and […]
The outrage from Hillary Clinton supporters came immediately: Donald Trump might have won the Electoral College, but he appears to have lost the popular vote. This was said to be a violation of democracy, one that defied the principle of “one man, one vote.” A Yale professor slandered the Founders by telling the website Vox […]
Following her declaration that Trump was “Talking Down Our Democracy” – Hillary’s silence is a failure to fulfill her commitment given on national television. Then candidate Donald Trump’s noncommittal response to accepting the results of the election drew sharp criticism from both the media and Hillary Clinton. In fact, the New York Times’ opening paragraph […]
“Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others, and several states as among them selves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each state severally the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom. This wise distribution, if carefully preserved, will prove, I trust from […]
Note: Thomas Paine Common Sense Appendix first appeared in the second edition of the pamphlet, published on February 14, 1776. It is not considered part of the original work; rather than being part of his detailed argument for independence, the appendix lays out a few of Paine’s arguments and responds to concerns of the day. SINCE […]
Note: As previously mention Foundations of Liberty (FOL) has provided a link summarizing Thomas Paine Common Sense Section IV – which includes analysis that may not reflect the views of FOL in entirety, but provides information helpful to the reader. I HAVE never met with a man, either in England or America, who hath not […]
Note: As previously mention Foundations of Liberty (FOL) has provided a link summarizing Thomas Paine Common Sense Section III – which includes analysis that may not reflect the views of FOL in entirety, but provides information helpful to the reader. IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common […]
Note: As previously mention Foundations of Liberty (FOL) has provided a link summarizing Thomas Paine Common Sense Section II – which includes analysis that may not reflect the views of FOL in entirety, but provides information helpful to the reader. MANKIND being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed […]
Note: Foundations of Liberty (FOL) has provided links to summaries of Thomas Paine Common Sense Section I – Section IV. Some summaries include analysis that does not reflect the views of FOL in entirety, but provides information helpful to the reader. SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no […]
