Rockingham County Republican Committee

American History

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July 2, 2021, Frederick Douglass' Other Fourth of July Speech is Particularly Timely, Daily Signal

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July 4 2021, Six Surprising Facts About the Declaration of Independence, Virginia Mercury​

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July 4, 2021, What John Quincy Adams Meant When He Said America 'Goes Not Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy', Washington Free Beacon

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Resources

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Edwin Meese III, Matthew Spalding, David Forte, editors, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Washington, D.C." The Heritage Foundation, 2005.

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Saul K. Padover, Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Freedom, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1965.

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Richard L. Perry and John C. Cooper, editors, Sources of Our Liberties: Documentary Origins of Individual Liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, Chicago: American Bar Association, 1978 Revised Edition (Reprinted 1990 William S. Hein & Co).

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Ellis Sandoz, Editor, Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805, Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1990

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James Brown Scott, James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 And Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations, New York: Oxford University Press, 1918.

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C. Bradley Thompson, America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It. New York: Encounter Books, 2019.

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Robert Louis Wilken, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2019.

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Robert L. Wilken, Remembering the Christian Past, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.

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