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James Madison
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Showing posts with label
James Madison
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Friday, July 4, 2025
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July 4th
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Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as...
Saturday, September 7, 2024
How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership – a friendship told in letters – shaped America’s separation of church and state
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Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to the Pew Re...
Friday, June 3, 2022
Modern-day struggle at James Madison’s plantation Montpelier to include the descendants’ voices of the enslaved
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On May 17, 2022, after weeks of negative stories on Montpelier in the national press, the foundation that operates the Virginia plantation...
Saturday, July 3, 2021
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t really complaining about King George, and 5 other surprising facts for July 4th
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Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as...
Saturday, March 21, 2020
As I write this, I am seeking balance in an unbalanced time
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As I write this, it is mid-morning and I’ve already washed my hands multiple times. I’ve got rubber gloves in my car now. I skipped the gy...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Trump reminds us that America is a military nation
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President Trump is being criticized for surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals and admirals during his F...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
First Amendment includes separation of church and state
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The phrase “separation of church and state,” once a widely shared article of civic faith in the United States, has become a flashpoint for...
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Jacob G. Hornberger: Foreign interventionism is destroying us
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Most everyone acknowledges that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, possessed deep insights into the relationship between liber...
Friday, March 18, 2016
Charles C. Haynes: Beyond left vs. right, Madison’s vision of religious freedom
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Partisans on both sides in this campaign season are invoking the issue of religious freedom – or what they call “religious freedom” – to b...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Charles C. Haynes: The First Amendment, our articles of peace
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In 2015, America’s increasingly crowded public square was often filled with hostility, becoming an angry arena where people shout past one...
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