Christians have played a crucial role in advancing freedom and equality for all Americans, even for those Americans who despise Christianity.
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republican liberty.
Our Dear-Bought Liberty is the definitive treatment of the Catholic quest for religious toleration in America's early years.
For Manent, action is never an end in itself but must always be guided by the virtues.
The essays in this collection provide excellent reasons for offering substantial protection to what many founders called “the sacred right of conscience.”
A timely reminder of the full range of anti-republican institutions that the Confederacy fought a war to try to perpetuate.
Though the particular challenges to freedom may change, dangers will recur.
Conceding that the American project of globalization has foundered, Robert Kaplan now places his hope in empire.
The Roman philosopher’s fragile trinity of natural law, popular sovereignty, and liberty represents a pinnacle of classical republican thought.
A new history ponders the Founders’ conception of human nature and why the nation's faith in democracy is misplaced.
Spencer Roane’s ardent defense of state sovereignty and Jeffersonian republicanism rub against the traditional story of early nineteenth-century America.