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This Day In Founding Fathers History – 12 June

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1776, the Virginia Convention unanimously adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored by George Mason.

June 12, 2014 7

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 29 May

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1736, that of Patrick Henry.

May 29, 2014 10

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 15 May

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1776 on this day, the Resolves of the Virginia Convention were proposed.

May 15, 2014 27

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman – The Constitution Didn’t Create Trial By Jury

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – With us today, Professor Dr. Kevin Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. Another question before we have to part company today that continues to arise here and I find myself dealing with on almost a daily basis. Try as I might to plumb the depths of this question and convince those that […]

August 22, 2013 6

Transcripts

SCOTUS Acts Outside Its Authority All The Time

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Under the original ratified in 1788 Constitution, all municipal and police or common law problems and powers were left in the hands of the states. It wasn’t until madmen decided: We can make these things federal cases. If we don’t get our way in the state, we can get the Feds to bail us out. Of course, there was never any constitutional authority for […]

June 4, 2013 7

Transcripts

Why Do We Have State Constitutions If They’re Going To Be Usurped By The Federal Supreme Court?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let me give you the latest example of losing republicanism, this God-awful ruling that comes from the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday. You can read Scalia’s entire dissertation on why Kennedy was in error in leading a 5-4 majority in favor of universal DNA swabbing. Now, if you get arrested for anything, wherever it is that you’re arrested at, if Deputy Fife […]

June 4, 2013 8

The Founders

Patrick Henry Would Abolish The IRS, So Why Don’t We?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a chapter in that book, in Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s book Is Davis a Traitor? and the chapter title is “The Founding Fathers As Political Prophets.” That’s the title of the chapter. Bledsoe lays out in very clear details from the Virginia Ratifying Convention that Patrick Henry and George Mason and others actually predicted the War of 1861, and they predicted exactly what would […]

May 17, 2013 11

Transcripts

Patrick Henry – Patriot, Pontificator And Bibliophile

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Hayes actually went to Red Hill, which is where Henry lived and died, and asked permission of the family and the curator of the family estate and found Henry’s own diaries and the logs that Patrick Henry used to catalog his possessions. Back in those days, if you had books, books were like -- what would you compare a book to today? A book […]

May 9, 2013 12

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 17 April 2013

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 1741, that of Samuel Chase. Chase was born in Maryland, educated by his father, and studied law in Annapolis.

April 17, 2013 8