Day: May 11, 2023

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “His [M.E. Bradford's] attempt to restore a conservative understanding of the Founding led to a series of famous exchanges with Harry Jaffa (and his epigones), and this is, probably, what Bradford is unfortunately best known for today. Jaffa argued that the Declaration was a revolutionary document. That it founded America on the principle of equality. That “equality…is then both good in itself and good for its consequences.” And that “the rooting of constitutionalism, and the […]