James Madison

Hessians Tortured And Killed Americans, But Did George Washington Torture Them?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "On August 28, the Hessians bayoneted a couple hundred Continentals, killed them right there on the spot, no mercy whatsoever. Same thing happened in October when Fort Washington fell on Manhattan Island to the Hessians and to the British regulars. The British regulars, for the most part, didn’t participate in this. They let the Hessians do the dirty work. So don’t tell me there’s no […]

December 16, 2014 17

Daily Clip

George Washington Resigns His CIC Commission-An Example Obama Won’t Copy

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Just imagine this. At the start of all this on the 12th of June 1775 when John Adams nominates Washington to be commander in chief, the story that’s been recounted many times but probably not still that well known. When George Washington was sent by the State of Virginia or the Colony of Virginia to attend the Continental Congress, his dress attire for every day that […]

November 12, 2014 5

Transcripts

Will The USA Be Stuck With Intervention For Foreseeable Future?

Does That Future Include Us Non-Interventionists? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Remember, governing affairs, almost to a fault, almost all affairs of government have something to do with foreign policy. If you’re not going to be able to stop, if it’s not possible for the U.S. to be non-interventionist in foreign affairs, then I would argue that it’s not possible for the same government then to be non-interventionist in domestic […]

October 7, 2014 15

The Constitution

What Lincoln Killed-EPISODE I, Jefferson & Madison Schemed Nullification

FREE SAMPLE: Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline and "little" Jimmy Madison scheme to present nullification as the remedy for The Alien & Sedition Acts. Mandeville, LA - David Simpson reviews Mike's "What Lincon Killed-EPISODE I" - Mike Church offers a truly unique take on the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, Secession & A Union Divided. Historically accurate and unlike anything you’ve experienced before. The story centers around Thomas […]

August 28, 2014 12

The Founders

The Story of Patrick Henry, Josiah Phillips & Ferguson, MO

his post was originally published on Dec 12, 2013. The Josiah Phillips story illustrates the Founding generation's sense of when lethal force was justified and when it wasn't. That's what the argument between Patrick Henry and Edmund Randolph is really all about

August 19, 2014 8

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 17 July

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Another birthday on this day in 1744, that of Elbridge Gerry. Gerry assumed the office of vice president under President Madison after George Clinton died in office, and Gerry too died in office less than two years later.

July 17, 2014 8

Interviews

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

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "When you’re talking about Independence Day and the 4th of July here in the states -- I don’t know if the Scots are going to vote for independence or not. One of the downfalls or one of the things to be guarded against when you are a member of a union of states as large as ours is, and especially as boastful we are […]

July 9, 2014 6

Interviews

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

Daily Clip

Ferrara – Democracy Fail, How’s Taxation WITH Representation Working?

"When that idea [democracy] is introduced, you have coming into the political structure of a society this whole notion of representation, that government is a compact between the people and the government as established through their representatives. The great irony of representation is that over time it swallows up everything and destroys true liberty. If anybody doubts that, let me ask a simple question: How has taxation with representation worked […]

June 16, 2014 17