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Union and Liberty in Early America, Part I

James Danielson, PhD Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein (1766-1817), known as Madame de Stael (commonly pronounced โ€œde Stallโ€), was a French writer and political theorist whose writings were widely read in her lifetime and long after. She was alarmed at Napoleonโ€™s belligerent adventures in Europe and wrote to him aggressively about it, which prompted Bonaparte to demand of his servants that they…

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Free People as Citizens

The Philadelphia Convention concluded its business on 17, September 1787. Ten days later, on 27, September, there appeared the first of seven letters written to the citizens of New York under the pseudonym โ€œCato.โ€ The letters are intended to help New Yorkers think about the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed new constitution.[i] It isnโ€™t known…