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Kevin Gutzman – The Folly Of Today’s American Exceptionalism, Pt. I

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Kevin: Again, nowadays one can turn on talk radio, this current show excepted, virtually any day of the week and hear Limbaugh and Levin and so on complaining that the United States isn’t intervening directly in Syria, isn’t sending an army back to Iraq, isn’t doing anything about what happened in Crimea and so on. Again, Limbaugh often says: President Obama doesn’t want America […]

July 9, 2014 6

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Gutzman, Church – Rep. Gowdy’s Enforce The Law Act, Part I

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline and talk to our friend, Professor Dr. Kevin Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, Who Killed the Constitution, and Virginia’s American Revolution, and lately an article at NomocracyInPolitics.com. Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church Show Transcript Mike: Let’s go to the Dude […]

June 28, 2014 8

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More Proof The Declaration Did Not Create an Indivisible Blob of America

Mandeville, LA - The principal claim used to justify the "perpetual" or "indivisible" union flows from the Declaration of Independence, once passed, formed One People of America or as Daniel Webster put it "...the aggregate community, the collected will of the people, is sovereign." In researching the events surrounding the first public readings of the Declaration I found the following from the 1895 edition of LOSSING'S HISTORY of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM […]

May 30, 2014 5

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What Kids Used To Read About George Washington

Today's Children Would Not Understand Something Written in 1886. Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Wouldn’t it be a sign of a regenerating spirit of republicanism and of the primary things that kids ought to be learning as opposed to the compulsory things that we force them to learn -- this magazine, my point, is pitched to young people. I just want to read the introduction to the story on […]

March 16, 2014 8

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Patrick Henry-American Statesman, The Book

Who is Patrick Henry? Most Americans recognize Patrick Henry as “The Orator” who delivered the “give me liberty or give me death” speech which thus delivered the United States a free and independent nation. This view of Henry’s life is rather like believing that George Washington’s signature achievement was chopping down a cherry tree.

January 28, 2014 13

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David Hume, Scottish Founding Fathers & Early Promoters of [r]epublicanism

Mandeville, LA - Name the week of the year on a calendar and there is a good chance that Mike Church has brought up a man who inspired our founding fathers, David Hume and his "The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth", on his Sirius/XM radio show or Founders TV show. Hume was an inspirational figure during the founding era and is well known to have inspired James Madison's views on […]

November 29, 2013 10

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Patrick Henry – Why did they say “We the People”?

During the VA Ratifying Convention Patrick Henry was the most frequent speaker against ratification of the new Constitution. Here, on 4 June, 1788, Mr. Henry first spoke to the delegates and reminded them of Virginia's sovereignty and her membership in a confederation of states. This speech is acted out in my movie "The Spirit of '76 - The Greatest Story Never Told".

June 25, 2013 3

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An Actual Founding Father’s Inaugural Address – No Egos Here

Let me read to you how a Founding Father accepted his inauguration. This will come as a shock to you people, but I actually have here in my hands the text of Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address. Yes, even back then those old fuddy-duddy guys in white stockings and powdered wigs gave addresses when they were inaugurated. The striking thing about Jefferson’s inauguration is the humility and the humble attitude […]

June 10, 2013 8

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Interview With Kevin Gutzman On George Washington

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I mentioned earlier that today is the anniversary of George Washington’s first inauguration in New York City. It was a very festive occasion. According to some that witnessed the event, it was also an event that was met with an awful lot of trepidation and dis-certitude. People didn’t know what was going to become of this new government they created. Here to fill us […]

May 1, 2013 9