There was more than just the lack of power that the central government needed to function properly that the current alliance circumvented. There was also an abuse of democracy that mere modification of the Articles could not address.
Read More“Properly understood, the “1619 Project” isn’t about black history. It’s about today’s racial disparities. It’s about applying current ideologies to past events, in the continuing attempt to blame the past actions of whites for the current problems of blacks.”
Read More“Slavery required a culture that held labor in contempt. The North, with its celebration of labor, especially working for money, became even more different from the lazy, slaveholding South. By the 1850s, the two sections, though both American, possessed two different cultures.”
Read MoreThe XYZ Affair brought us to the brink of war and stunned Jefferson when it was released. The author Gordon Woods compared it to the paranoia that gripped the west coast after Pearl Harbor that led to the internment of Japanese Americans. The XYZ memo destroyed public support for the pro French Republican party of Jefferson.
Read MoreIrony is almost synonymous with history. Jefferson feared a large central government, but could not foresee a central government with Jeffersonian values.
Read MoreAdams feared the aristocrats (the elite). Jefferson feared the monarchs. Each thought the other an existential threat. Evan after the constitution was signed we were unclear what kind of government we had and what kind we wanted. We have been trying to complete the job every since.
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