Articles By: Derek Howell

Political Party Poison

Political Party Poison

Thomas Jefferson, in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions, explained “[i]n questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Can we honestly say that our contemporary elected representatives, comprised of Democrats and Republicans, in Washington, D.C., are bound from their mischievous actions “by the chains of the Constitution”? No, it appears that the chains have been broken.

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Jonathan Edwards

Living Liberty

Colonial preachers like Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Mayhew, George Whitefield, and Cotton Mather greatly impacted the lives and thoughts of America’s founders. There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy before 1763.

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