As we honor Constitution Day on Sept. 17, let us recommit not only to the rule of law, but to the habits of citizenship that ...

“Whenever the people are well-informed,” Thomas Jefferson opined, “they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied ...

The resistance to Federalists’ hysteria about supposed French influence in American politics is history worth revisiting, ...

Some overviews. Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) / Thomas Jefferson -- Democracy in America (1835-40) / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The Pilgrims of Plymouth (1855) / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Race ...

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy ...

The author of the Declaration of Independence went to great lengths, on numerous occasions (as I detail in What Would Jefferson Do?), to point out that when Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues started ...

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