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The Contest for Constitutional Liberty
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Abraham Lincoln’s Declaration of Independence
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The Contest for Constitutional Liberty
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Welfare Statism at the Heart of the American Revolution?
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To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
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Abraham Lincoln’s Declaration of Independence
When ordinary Americans reflect at all on their political tradition, the Gettysburg Address invariably stands at the center of those thoughts. Yet there is reason to doubt whether it ought to occupy...
View ArticleCelebrating Independence
On July 2, 1776, two hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, the Continental Congress voted that “These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.” John Adams, who...
View ArticleThe Measure of Remembrance: The Declaration of Independence and the American...
Editor’s note: This Fourth of July oration was first delivered by G. M. Curtis III on July 1, 1989 in Lone Mountain, Montana, for a conference on American citizenship. As an American historian and as...
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