The Great Compromise and the Struggle to Preserve State Sovereignty
The first weeks of July, 1787 were full of fiery speeches, threats of disunion, and tenuous compromises. In other words, just an ordinary time at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. On July 16, 1787 after nearly two weeks of debate, the convention adopted what has...
Paper Money: The Founders Warned Us!
โThe evils of paper money have no endโ Thatโs how Thomas Paine put it, but he was far from alone. The Founding Fathers were deeply worried about the dangers of paper money, because they lived them first hand. They repeatedly warned us about how it would give us price...
Benjamin Franklin’s Brilliant Satire: Exposing British Hypocrisy Through a Fake Prussian Edict
As frustrations with usurpations and arbitrary power from the British government grew, American colonial leaders fired up the presses, producing hundreds of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and resolutions outlining their case and urging resistance.ย Benjamin Franklin...