Using Tyranny to Prevent Tyranny: A Warning on Standing Armies
One of the forgotten values of the American Founders was their deeply held opposition to a permanent standing army. This was born of experience. In late 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British decided to station 10,000 troops for...
Understanding the Constitution: How the Document was Composed
The Constitution’s framers were familiar with a long line of Anglo-American documentary landmarks, of which the most famous was Magna Carta and the most recent were state constitutions and the Articles of Confederation. But in drafting the U.S. Constitution, the...
Forgotten Influences of the Founders
Our own Founding Fathers were convinced, and history has proven them prescient, that they were building a new and everlasting republic that would do what other republics of the ancient world had failed to do: survive the effects of the maladies of self-government and...