by Thomas Krannawitter | Apr 11, 2017 |
From the ashes of the Civil War, convinced that the United States suffered from a terrible mis-founding, young academicians looked to re-found American government upon new principles, new ideas, and an entirely new view of human nature. This was the project that came...
by Thomas Krannawitter | Feb 9, 2017 |
Slavery represented the most blatant violation of the principles of the Declaration. Slavery and freedom are eternally opposed to each other, after all. But that problematic contradiction is not the end of the story. What the Americans did to solve that problem is one...