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Advocates of American socialism need to learn some lessons 0
- March 4, 2019
British socialism as promoted by Bernard Shaw and his fellow “Fabians” was perhaps the gentlest form of socialism on the planet. Yet, this passage reads as if it were composed by Hitler.
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The Albany Plan of Union: Another Predecessor to the Constitution 0
- November 12, 2018
Some of the Plan’s features foreshadowed the Articles of Confederation, some foreshadowed the Constitution, and some foreshadowed both.
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William Penn’s Charter of Liberties—one of our Constitution’s ancestors 0
- November 11, 2018
The Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government granted by William Penn to his colony on May 5, 1682 . . . was . . . a true colonial constitution.
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Yet another constitutional precedent: a colonial charter from New York 0
- October 22, 2018
The Charter foreshadowed important provisions in the Bill of Rights.
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The Pilgrim Code of Law: one of many sources of our American Constitution 0
- October 21, 2018
In fact, the Constitution was the product of centuries of “guidelines.”
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John Dickinson’s ‘Farmer’ Letters on Their 250th Anniversary 0
- September 22, 2017
The Farmer letters went well beyond asserting the case against taxation without representation; they also helped clarify American constitutional thinking on other questions, including: Which government responsibilities should be exercised centrally and which locally?
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