Edmund Randolph

Kevin Gutzman – 1787 Constitution Convention, Federalists Lied

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In the same hall, eleven years later, men are meeting to discuss the new plan of government, the Virginia Plan as it’s known. Today is the 19th, so we’re almost three weeks into the discussion over James Madison’s Virginia Plan as offered by Edmund Randolph. It’s around about this time that the New York delegation has about had it with little Jimmy Madison. They’re […]

June 19, 2014 9

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman – 1776 VA Constitution, Independence Day

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The greatest revolution among the 13 colonies was not the one that was taking place in Philadelphia in Independence Hall. It was actually taking place in Williamsburg. This was the erection of or the composition of the first state constitution that a free people, or people who had acquired freedom, had ever elected to, as their first act, to put together so that they […]

June 19, 2014 5

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 22 May

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1856 on this day, violence erupted in Congress when Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane.

May 22, 2014 10

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 10 April

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1790, the first patent act was signed by President Washington.

April 10, 2014 3

Transcripts

There’s A Fourth Amendment To Protect Citizens FROM NSA Spooks

"He brings up Josiah Phillips and accuses Henry of basically being a tyrant (like an NSA agent). Patrick Henry was most certainly not a tyrant. While accusing Henry of being a tyrant, he then makes the case -- that if Virginia ratifies the new Constitution, then the kind of pursuit and lack of due process and searches and what have you that were going to go on to capture a […]

December 17, 2013 7

Transcripts

Obama’s Veto Will Be For Partisan Rather Than Constitutional Reasons

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Yes, we’re going to go down the road of constitutional fantasy land for just a moment. This could be another exercise in civics. Why should the President of the United States, why should that veto pen of his have such grave or awesome power? To answer that query is to answer the purpose of why we have a written constitution to begin with. Check […]

October 1, 2013 6

The Founders

How Did The United States Go From Articles Of Confederation To Constitution?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, the Articles of Confederation was most certainly and positively just that. It was a compact. By definition and description it was a confederation, meaning it was a federation of states or political entities that decided, for some express purposes, they needed to confederate together in order to have a better life and existence here after the Revolutionary War. Check out today’s transcript for […]

September 17, 2013 10

Interviews

Interview With Kevin Gutzman On Natural-Born Citizen And Republican Hypocrisy

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Just like with the incorporation doctrine, after I share it, then I am hectored and heckled. My integrity is assailed. Vattel is said to have been some sort of an 18th century quack that no one ever referred to in the United States and you and Gutzman can’t prove that. Then the subject of natural-born citizen is that nobody really cares about this unless […]

August 23, 2013 11

Transcripts

Interview With Kevin Gutzman

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In other words, Washington did what Washington always did. He pretended like he didn’t want to be there and he didn’t want anything to do with the proceedings and he just happened to be nominated for this grand position. Then, as he always did, he executed his task with historical flair and brilliance. To talk about this and to help flesh it out and […]

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