Echoes from The Founders (155)
Pursuing Happiness
Dies everyone have an equal opportunity to pursue happiness?
Everyone has a right to pursue happiness, but not everyone has an equal opportunity to successfully achieve happiness. Everyone has the opportunity to run in a race, but not everyone is
Read more…How to End Taxes - Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine
The earth was created by God and we are merely tenants on the land. Property is not the land it is that which men create. The house which we build is our property, but the land collectively belongs to the people. All land within the states is collec
Read more…Before the Constitution
On October 20, 1774, the First Continental Congress creates the Continental Association, which calls for a complete ban on all trade between America and Great Britain of all goods, wares or merchandise.
The creation of the association was in
Founders
About the Founding Fathers
George Washington
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
George Mason
Gouverneur Morris
Roger Sherman
James Wilson
Edmund Randolph
The Constitution and the Founding of the United States
Hosting a Constitutional Cottage Meeting
In order to educate America we need to motivate people to educate themselves on the principles of individual liberty and personal responsibility. I created the Liberty Tree University website to provide people with the resources necessary for them t
Read more…The Two Party System
George Washington received all of the electoral votes in the election of 1788 and 1792. He received 43,632 votes in states that held popular elections It was not In the election of 1828 virtually all of the states held popular elections,
In the
Read more…Jacksonian Democracy
Andrew Jackson lost his bid to become President in 1824 because he failed to win a sufficient number of electoral votes. He received 99 votes, but failed to obtain 131 electoral votes needed to win the election.
He was determined to run again in 18
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