But I don’t even own a dinghy!

Below, pertaining to the role of Resolutions of Instruction during the antebellum era, borrowed from my home-stretching dissertation (Work in Progress): During 2009, in the Journal of the Early Republic, “The Perils of ‘Pure Democracy’: Minority Rights, Liquor Politics, and Popular Sovereignty in Antebellum America, “Kyle Volk, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Montana, examines why representatives were reluctant to end liquor licensing once “reformers…

republicanism 101

This is an email I received that is indicative of an individual enjoining with others through grassroots to participate in achieving what one earnestly believes to be a stake in the common good. So long as grassroots movements apply to attain more equality, virtue, and freedom, they are “republican” and not “liberal” and certainly not…

Tid-Bit of Science or Title Bout of Our Politics?

President Trump is making me a million times more concerned than W. Bush, and I penned N. Awakening because of W! Right after self-publishing that piece of energy output, I entered a political science Ph.D. program. Today, my dissertation on American republicanism looks at the Founders’ generation from 1775 – 1819. For fun, I’m going to…