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Southern slaveholders: the inventors of ‘cancel culture’0
- June 22, 2021
“[P]arallels between the cancel culture of the slaveholders and that of modern “progressives” are not accidental at all.”
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Defending the Constitution: Why the Founders couldn’t abolish slavery 0
- April 4, 2021
Before criticizing the Founders, w]e must understand the choice they faced: (1) tolerating a vile institution that was (then) dying anyway or (2) consigning the American continent to perpetual warfare at a cost of millions of lives and incalculable misery.
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Without The Constitution You Might Be Someone’s Slave Today—And Other Crucial Facts About The Founding 0
- June 15, 2013
On June 14, I keynoted a conference on the American Founding. The conference was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an educational and publishing non-profit that focuses on civic education for college students. The keynote included six crucial facts about the framing and ratification of our Constitution: First: The Constitution was the product of careful
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A Response to Professor Seidman 0
- January 4, 2013
Should we acknowledge that the U.S. Constitution is filled with “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions,” and “extricat[e] ourselves from constitutional bondage” by cashiering the document? “As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” argues Louis Michael Seidman, tasked with
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Time Mag’s Constitutional Baby Babble 0
- June 26, 2011
Several readers sent me for comment a lengthy cover article in Time Magazine by managing editor Richard Stengel. Stengel’s piece is one result of new public interest in our Constitution and in “first principles”—interest that has forced political liberals (Stengel has been a paid Democratic activist) to think about the document’s real meaning. Previously, of
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