Assessing America's founders and their values 9 Articles

by Liam Martin

As delegates from around the newly established United States convened in Philadelphia to discuss the terms of a new federal Constitution, party lines were beginning to form. The Anti-Federalists, apprehensive of establish...read more

by Linda Burleson

One of the most famous pictures of the American Revolution is the one of George Washington standing at the helm of the lead boat in which he and his soldiers crossed the Delaware River. This does not picture accurately wh...read more

by Rukhsana Zulfiqar

The Founding Fathers of the American History were considered as champions of freedom, justice and democracy. The Constitution made by them was regarded as the most democratic. Americans glorify the Framers and consider the...read more

by John Hancock

American revolutionary war: radical action, or conservative reaction? Most of the Founding Fathers' were slaveholders: common knowledge. But what is less-well-known is that they were all(Or nearly all) rich aristocratic...read more

by Matt Schmittdiel

Despite the fact that genocide, slavery, and a centralized political state existed at the outset of this country our founding fathers were indeed champions of democracy. Human society evolves just like everything else. Sla...read more

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by Michael Lane

A great debate continues in America, one that was launched even before the states were truly united. In those days, the founding fathers often argued amongst themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of sanctionin...read more

by Gary Betts

When the founding fathers created the United States of America, they had no illustrious founding values. 'By the People and For the People' was just an empty slogan. ...read more

by Jerry Curtis

America's founding values are essentially encapsulated in our Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by thei...read more

by Kevin Katz

If you've lost trust in the Government from Watergate and beyond, then you've been misinformed of the ills of our Government from the many years before that. Not unlike 'democratic' Governments of Ancient Greece and Rome, ...read more