American Founders
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A Review of 'The Pursuit of Happiness' June 07, 2024
In his first inaugural address, President George Washington declared that “there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.” In a nation tha...
The Style and Substance of Jefferson December 13, 2023
The Declaration of Independence, the most revered document to have been issued from the pen of Thomas Jefferson, contains both soaring rhetoric and serious constitutional arguments that the colonists had been making for over a decade. And Jefferson’s...
