Category: History
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Governing Yourself: Self-Government is Limited Government
To govern oneself is fundamentally about having control over one’s own life. It means the freedom to pursue your own choices, direct your own efforts, and bear responsibility for your own outcomes. That is also to be free from unnecessary intrusion by others. Self-government isn’t simply a matter of how we structure politics or how…
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Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Constitution in Absentia
The following post is an early paper I wrote in US History Seminar early in my master’s program. It spoke of how Thomas Jefferson had written the Declaration of Independence, but he was away in France when the Constitution was forged. It argues that Jefferson, though absent, has his fingerprints seen all through it. The…