Thursday Pile of Prep
Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae โHis [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 โequalityโฆis then both good in itself and good for its consequences.โ And that โthe rooting of constitutionalism, and the […]