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This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress issued “Resolutions of Congress on Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal.” The proposal had been an attempt to divide the colonies by urging one or more colonies to abandon the others. British Parliament offered colonies to the chance to contribute to parliament’s “common defense” in order to be exempted from certain taxes. Virginia was first […]

todayJuly 30, 2014 12

Founders Corner

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

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Kevin: Again, nowadays one can turn on talk radio, this current show excepted, virtually any day of the week and hear Limbaugh and Levin and so on complaining that the United States isn’t intervening directly in Syria, isn’t sending an army back to Iraq, isn’t doing anything about what happened in Crimea and so on.  Again, Limbaugh often says: President Obama doesn’t want America […]

todayJuly 9, 2014 6

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 […]

todayJune 19, 2014 5

conservatism

Transcripts

Liberty, the God That Failed – Part 1

Part 1 - Christopher Ferrara Interview "Liberty, the God That Failed" (original air date 11 Feb, 2014)   Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Some of you are going to have issues with this, and I think that’s why Mr. Ferrara needs to be a guest on programs like this.  Proverbial envelopes need to be pushed from time to time, although I don’t really think he’s pushing an enveloped, not forward […]

todayJune 16, 2014 40

Transcripts

What Really Happened At Start Of Federal Convention Of 1787, Pt. I

Interview with Kevin Gutzman - Federal Convention Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let’s get to the matter at hand here with Professor Kevin Gutzman, who is one of the foremost authorities on James Madison.  I wanted to start with the introduction of the Virginia Plan, which happened 237 years ago today.  Governor Randolph was, of course, the gentleman that introduced the plan.  It wasn’t Madison who introduced it.  In the […]

todayJune 2, 2014 9

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 […]

todayMay 1, 2014 14

John Taylor-friend to James Madison

The Founders

John Taylor And James Madison – The Secret Disunion Sentiment In 1794

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "We have this little piece of history that I found, this essay that was written by John Taylor about the yet to be assembled Virginia Dynasty's quandary in the early days of the [r]epublic.  If you don’t know what the Virginia dynasty was, it was the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison and then Monroe.  For those 24 years, New England aggression or the Eastern aggression, as […]

todayApril 8, 2014 9

Transcripts

Jefferson Had Issues With His Generation Too

Every Generation Has It's Problems Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Remember, Russell Kirk, the great conservative author and the man many believe was correctly and aptly titled the father of modern-day conservatism, Kirk was fond of this phrase that he thought all conservatives should have in the back of their mind at all times.  It was okay, indeed it was advisable, to stand up on the shoulders of giants." […]

todayMarch 13, 2014 4

Transcripts

National Military vs Militias

 Militia Needs Everything the Standing Military Has Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "The Virginia militia, the South Carolina militia, the Georgia militia, the North Carolina militia, the Tennessee volunteers, they were already armed.  They were armed as militiamen and they were armed as if they were an army that could be called upon and called into service.  That’s how they were able to do it.  Now, of course, once […]

todayFebruary 25, 2014 13

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