This Day In Founding Fathers History – 19 March
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1748, that of Elias Hicks.
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1748, that of Elias Hicks.
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Two notable birthdays today, that of John C. Calhoun and Grover Cleveland… the last Jeffersonian.
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In this one rare instance here, we all remain republicans but we can maybe claim that we’re Republicans now. A shocker of all shockers that Speaker John Boehner has not folded the tent, which I must say I am cheerfully impressed by. I don’t hold out any hope that he’s actually going to hold the line, but he certainly is not giving into the […]
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Then the real fireworks began when Senator John “Rambo” Kerry made his way into the United States Senate chamber and began answering questions from people like Rand Paul. I have the pertinent parts of the Paul-Kerry dialogue from yesterday. If you haven’t heard it, it is illuminating inasmuch as Senator Paul is not buying any of the secretary of defense’s mighty protestations. Check out […]
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – When James Madison was writing Federalist Paper No. 62, I think, something like that, when he was writing that particular Federalist Paper and he was pining away from a check on the excesses of the state legislatures -- he wanted a veto on the acts of the states -- the reason he gave was that you had to have some kind of a board […]
This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1788 Federalist No. 68 by Alexander Hamilton was published, find out what it said in today's Founders History...
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – John, when the law becomes so voluminous that it cannot be known, it cannot be enforced, by definition. Federalist Paper No. 61 written by James Madison, live it, love it, learn it. You’ll read all about Madison saying why the Necessary and Proper Clause must be used very cautiously and judiciously because you don’t want the creation of such a labyrinth of laws that […]
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 1815, President Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating money to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library.
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - You see and hear it every day on this show when people call me up and argue with me about incorporation and deny the history. It has to do with this idea that the United States Constitution was sent by God, that it was carried down from Mt. Sinai, which was Independence Hall, carved on stone tablets, and we’re all sworn a perpetual and […]