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Friday, June 18, 2021

What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?

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Check out this new article by Seth Tillman entitled, " What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?: The Problem of Conceptual Conf...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance

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This isn't entirely related to the American Founding and religion; though readers will relate to the language and terminology used here...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Tench Coxe on Article VI, Clause 3 of the US Constitution

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  Check it out here . No religious test is ever to be required of any officer or servant of the United States. The people may employ any wis...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

States of Nature and the American Founding

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See  this article entitled "Natural Rights, Natural Law, and American Constitutions" by law professor Philip Hamburger  for a comp...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Hebrew Republic and Distributivism

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The other day on my social media, a traditional orthodox Christian friend, sympathetic towards laissez faire economic policy questioned whet...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

William Livingston's Political Philosophy

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This article by Myron Magnet details the political philosophy of American founder William Livingston. I may have reproduced it before (from...
Sunday, February 07, 2021

AU: "The Faith of Our (Founding) Father: George Washington Wasn't As Pious As Christian Nationalists Would Have You Believe"

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From Rob Boston. Check it out here . A taste: While in private life, Washington attended church services about once a month. As president, h...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Andrew Seidel: "Leave God Out of the Presidential Oath"

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This is from Andrew Seidel of the Freedom From Religion Foundation . A taste: The spoken words have been as deliberate as the written words...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

John Milton and Isaac Newton: From Arianism to Socinianism

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I need to put this book on my "to read" list.  "In a book in progress, I will argue that Milton is an early adopter of a set...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Francis Hopkinson's Anti-Trinitarian

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Francis Hopkinson was one of America's founders -- a "Founding father." He was not a "key founder" however (meaning...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

From 2018, Gier reviews Lillback's GWSF

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I missed this in 2018 . The notable Unitarian Universalist scholar Nick Gier reviewed Peter Lillback's " George Washington's S...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Jedidiah Morse to James Madison

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Jedidiah Morse was one of the forces of orthodox, Calvinistic religious correctness who was sorry to see "heresies" gain traction ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Are Mormons Christian?

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That's the title to a Volokh Conspiracy post . There is actually a court case in Arizona on this question. Eugene Volokh aptly sums up t...
Sunday, November 01, 2020

John Quincy Adams' Unitarianism

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I've spent much time researching John Adams' unitarianism, which could be quite militant at times. I've spent less time on his s...
Friday, October 09, 2020

Allan Bloom on the Moderns' Solid Ground

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With this, I complete my series on Allan Bloom analysing the philosophical construct of the "state of nature" from which modern li...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Allan Bloom on Locke's State of Nature

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I continue my series on Allan Bloom articulating the "state of nature" from which liberalism emerged with his analysis of John Loc...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Allan Bloom on States of Nature

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I'm continuing the discussion from Allan Bloom's " The Closing of the American Mind " and how it dealt with the founders ...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

More From Allan Bloom on Revolutions in Modernity

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What we saw last post is Allan Bloom asserting "modernity" began with three revolutions: English, American and French. I want to ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Allan Bloom on the Big Three Liberal Revolutions

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I strongly recommend Allan Bloom's " The Closing of the American Mind " and Leo Strauss' " Natural Right and History ...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Hall on Rakove at Christianity Today

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Mark David Hall has an article out at Christianity Today that reviews the new work by Jack Rakove on religious liberty and the American fo...