https://youtu.be/WvOZs3g3qIo?si=9rHJ0cOvpKwIeiws I've argued that the defects of the U.S. Constitution — as interpreted by the Roberts Court and exploited by the Trump administration — leave us no choice but to pursue a long-term goal of amending it. I've also hypothesized that the very process of...
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This is the grave of James Wilson. Born in 1742 on a farm in Fife, Scotland, Wilson grew up in a fairly well off Presbyterian agricultural family. He was able.
This is the grave of John Smilie. Born in 1741 in Ireland, Smilie immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1760. He became involved with the Patriots in Lancaster County, fighting as a.
Slave auction, Charleston, 1856 What's really amazing about Sean Wilentz's self-immolation this week isn't so much that he's decided to become a hack for Hillary Clinton, but how a once-esteemed U.S. historian has shows such willingness to sacrifice good historical analysis in order to be...
As this essay suggests, the Three-Fifths Compromise was a terrible deal for the North from the very beginning and would establish that slaveholders would use their slaves to make money.
Obviously, in the short term ruling the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional is an improvement in public policy. Unfortunately, one of the arguments used in the rulings was a 10th.