All Entries in the "American Times" Category
President Warren G. Harding | The Speech for a Return To Normalcy in America
Warren G. Harding calls for a “Return to Normalcy,” Boston, MA, May 14, 1920 There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been [...]
The Committee of Five | The Creation of the Declaration of Independence
“The Committee of Five” By: Robert Marcoccio In 1689, philosopher John Locke published his “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” and by 1765 had become a motivating force leading up to the American Revolution. Locke’s political argument that natural rights gave the people the right to overthrow tyrannical leaders was combined with influence from the “country [...]
Marbury vs Madison
The foundation on which rests the government of the United States is the Constitution. Like most important political documents, the Constitution is subject to interpretation – that is one of its great strengths. The Constitution is not a legal straitjacket. It is firm yet flexible enough to meet the needs of a growing nation. Naturally, [...]
Mungo the Skugg ~ a Satiristic Eulogy by Benjamin Franklin
Among many things, Benjamin Franklin knew how to promote himself. When he was a young printer he would not simply walk somewhere. He would load up a wheelbarrow with papers and push it along giving the look of a hard working, busy young man. When he would visit other countries, he would carry along treats [...]
The Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin
By: Tony Rollo “Liberty is the ability to be wrong; not the ability to do wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was a true polymath; a person who excels in many fields of interest. Living in the Age of Enlightenment, Franklin encountered and contemplated the question that was being asked around the world. And this [...]
