“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – John F. Kennedy, 1963 Since the close of World War II, the United States maintained a […]
“The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance of each other, we do not feel called upon […]
In 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry enacted a law that redrew the state’s senatorial districts. Under the new lines Federalists were grouped together in fewer districts, constituting a successful effort […]
As nations emerge from beneath the fold of colonial empires, they are faced with the task of differentiating themselves from their former sovereigns, yet while colonial nations had the luxury […]
“What people believe prevails over the truth” – Sophocles, The Sons of Aleus Among the societal preoccupations and political wedge issues that have pervaded American culture, none is perhaps […]