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Mercy Otis Warren: Constitution Would “Terminate in the Most Uncontrolled Despotism”
Mercy Otis Warren came down firmly opposed to ratification of the Constitution, and her anonymously written pamphlet titled “Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions” was highly influential during the ratification debates. Warren has been referred to as America’s first female historian.
Enduring Memories of the American Revolution – - Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug
Mercy Otis Warren wanted her countrymen to remember the terrible burden of being unfree. Alexis de Tocqueville metaphorized his thoughts on nations when he wrote that “the whole man is there in the cradle.” Though preceding him in life by nearly eighty years, no one could have agreed with this sentiment more than Mercy Otis Warren, the greatest historian of the American Revolution to have lived through it.
Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren | Path to Liberty Podcast
Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most formidable intellectuals in eighteenth-century America. Her prolific writing on the most important issues of the time, along with her massive history of the Revolution also earns her the title of America’s first female historian.. History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution 2 vols Observations On the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions
What’s the Deal with all the Obedience? | Path to Liberty Podcast
What’s the Deal with all the Obedience? The doctrine of “passive obedience and non-resistance” – was one the founders and old revolutionaries vehemently rejected as destructive to liberty. Yet, here we are today…is it based on fear, or maybe just old habits?
The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun | Path to Liberty Podcast
A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined – with similar warnings – by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others. But this opposition to factions didn’t start with the founding generation at all.
The Federal Reserve Is Setting America Up For Economic Disaster
I recently had the opportunity to read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin, a prodigious tome dealing with the circumstances surrounding the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. I was taken aback by some of its provocative assertions. – America joined World War I largely to help a few bankers profit off the war (despite a long-standing Monroe doctrine that prohibited our involvement in European affairs).
Alienation from God
Alienation was one of the “buzz words” of the twentieth century and a key idea in Marxist communism. Karl Marx held that a fundamental problem with the world was the deep alienation between the working classes and the fruits of their labor. He believed that if only we could set the worker free to enjoy ownership in his labor, a foundational element of the world’s ills would be dissipated. This was part of the central message of communism.
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