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This Day in Founder's History

This Day in Founders History – 6 August

[private FP-Yearly|FP-Monthly] If you're having problems playing the video, please download it, there may be an incompatibility with your browser. [/private] This Day In Founders History – 6 August On this day in 1776, [excerpt from Journals of the Continental Congress]: “The Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the articles of Confederation.” In 1787 on this day, the Federal Convention received […]

todayAugust 6, 2012

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Why Are Secession Petitions A Naughty Term?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - How ironic is this?  You want the greatest irony of all ironies?  In the Articles of Confederation, it says that the articles, once ratified, were to make a perpetual league of friendship, I believe.  They use the word “perpetual.”  How perpetual was it when eleven of the states living under it in 1787 and 1788 seceded from it and gave it up […]

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