All Entries in the "American View" 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 [...]
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, [...]
Hey Grandad! What’s For Supper?
An Essay by Tony Rollo It was ritual for the family in the 1960s to make regular visits to Great Granny’s house in Greensboro, Florida. It was a large, very old but solid farm house even back then. Huge, ancient oaks reached high to heaven in the yard and patches of native flowers abound in [...]
I, Pencil
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace – and that is all. – Leonard Read “I, Pencil” – Leonard Read I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my [...]
American Strength, Security and Responsibility
By: Tony Rollo “This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.” – Benjamin Franklin Our Founding Fathers did what they [...]
The Balance of Power
By: Robert Marcoccio The use of popular vote began in 1804 by the state of Maine for President of the United States. It was not till 1824 that the use of popular vote became the mandate to select electors to represent a state that voted for an authorized candidate for president. The Electoral College is [...]
