Tag: Benjamin Franklin

Opinion: Why The Founders Could Not Have Devised A Trump-Proof Democracy

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Sat, Dec 5th, 2020

Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.” What Paine meant, in part, was that the new republican form of government required a new and different kind of person, a new kind of citizen. People were used to being subjects of the Crown, ruled…

Texas and South Carolina Take Two Very Different Views of the Confederate Flag

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Fri, Jun 19th, 2015

The State of Texas won’t allow the Confederate flag on its license plates, while South Carolina won’t even lower their’s to half-mast

The Republican Party and the un-Founding of America

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Sun, May 5th, 2013

Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the Second and the Tenth- narrowing Republican goals to guns and secession.

Tagged Benjamin Franklin

Opinion: Why The Founders Could Not Have Devised A Trump-Proof Democracy

Texas and South Carolina Take Two Very Different Views of the Confederate Flag

The Republican Party and the un-Founding of America

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