James Monroe

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 11 March

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Two birthday today, those of Robert Treat Paine and John McLean, check out today's Founders History to learn more about them...

March 11, 2015 28

Daily Clip

Obama’s Keystone Veto Message PROVES Rumors Of Constitution’s Death True

Obama's Keystone Veto Message PROVES Rumors Of the Constitution's Death Are True - James Madison handed down a real Constitutional Veto Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "If you’re a citizen and you’re not mortified by that to quit national politics, I don’t know what will make you quit. It’s over, folks. There is no Constitution. There is no conception of a constitution. As the difference between Madison and Obama’s veto should make plainly clear, James Madison was trying to do […]

March 3, 2015 24

Project '76

How Should Principled Men Treat Friendly Politicians? Ask John Taylor

Mandeville, LA - We have had dozens of conversations on the Mike Church Show about the selfless service of Patriots like President James Monroe. You can read the story of Monroe dying deep in debt BECAUSE of the expenses he incurred serving the United States. Monroe was a man of character and principle on these matters as was his sometimes best friend and philosopher/mentor John Taylor of Caroline County. I […]

August 7, 2014 16

Transcripts

If Wisconsin Rejects Right To Secede Then How Are They A Sovereign State?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "I would like to know, Mr. Kapenga, where has the concept of nullification been stated as unconstitutional other than out of the mouths of those that also say that it’s unconstitutional for states to secede and exercise their sovereignty. Where is it written? Don’t you hold Mr. Jefferson as an authority on most matters of legality when it applies to the federal union? What about Mr. Madison? What about James Monroe?" Check out […]

May 6, 2014 12

Transcripts

Republican Hero Of Trenton And Beyond

James Monroe the Republican Hero Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Happy belated birthday to James Monroe. That’s why we started this conversation, because Monroe was one of two continentals that was wounded in the Battle of Trenton. If you’ve heard Times That Try Men’s Souls or if you’ve read about it, you know that it was Monroe with a Colonel William Washington -- no relation to George -- that was […]

May 1, 2014 41

Fame Of Our Fathers

Happy Birthday James Monroe-Founder-Patriot-[r]epublican

Mandeville, LA - Brion MacClanahan reminds us of the wonderful life of James Monroe, often described as my favorite Founding Father (when Taylor isn't the subject). "Monroe was elected to the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention and along with Patrick Henry, George Mason, and William Grayson opposed ratification. He feared that the “national” government would eventually trounce on the liberties of the people of the States and thus pushed for a […]

April 28, 2014 23

The Founders

Madison Is Not The Sacred Oracle Of Nullification

James Madison Is Not The Sacred Oracle Of Nullification But Guess Who Is? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Why should it all just come down to whatever James Madison said? Madison was just one man after all. It seems that you would find other opinions on this and other writings and other things that could help flesh out what it was those that framed the Constitution, and the framers of that document, and those that implemented it, and then those […]

January 15, 2014 16

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 8 January

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, President Washington delivered the first State of the Union address to Congress.

January 8, 2014 22

Transcripts

The Founding Fathers Weren’t Gods, And Neither Are Modern Politicians

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I wish it were a news flash, but it’s not a news flash that the welfare state has replaced the charity state and the little laboratories of philanthropy and democracy that de Tocqueville saw when he came here back in the 1820s and 1830s and wrote a book about it called Democracy in America. I think the experiment was doomed to fail as soon […]

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