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Republicanism

Vale Res Publica

By John Devanny

Once again, it is politicking time in the good ol’ US of A.  The Democrats, the party of youth, vision, and vigor, present to the country a senile old socialist who doesn’t believe that poor… »

  • Donald Trump
  • John Devanny
  • Republicanism
  • Southern Politics
  • Virginia

The Jeffersonian Democrat Rediscovered

By Clyde Wilson

A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York: Robert B. Luce, 1976, 208 pages. Hardly anyone has commented upon the seeming disappearance from American life of the Jeffersonian… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Populism
  • Republicanism
  • Thomas Jefferson

The Virginia Roots of American Values

By Clyde Wilson

“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians.” — Barnard Elliott Bee A Review of Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Jack Greene
  • Republicanism
  • Southern Culture
  • Virginia

What Was the Confederacy After All?

By Kirkpatrick Sale

This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of the Confederacy, whether to honor them or get rid of the lot, not much attention has been paid to what… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Republicanism
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson

Can the Republic Be Restored: Presidency

By Clyde Wilson

The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his country (a republican confederation). The President ends as Caesar, a despot of almost unlimited power, presiding over a global empire.… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Republicanism
  • United States Constitution

The Same Old Stand?

By John Shelton Reed

This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their Region a Half Century after I’ll Take My Stand, edited by Clyde Wilson, 1981. When the Southern Agrarians took their stand, they… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Clyde Wilson
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • John Shelton Reed
  • Republicanism
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History

Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part II

By Clyde Wilson

Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course, for these words “All men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Republicanism
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part I

By Clyde Wilson

There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old minstrel tune, that went like this: Is it true what they say about Dixie? Does the sun really shine there… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Republicanism
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Literature
  • Thomas Jefferson

A Jeffersonian Political Economy

By Clyde Wilson

Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics, which is a notoriously dreary subject.   It is even more of a downer when we consider how far the U.S.… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Clyde Wilson
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • James Jackson
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Republicanism
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson

Franklin Pierce: Reviled Jeffersonian

By Dave Benner

Sometimes opponents of nullification base their opposition on the claim that Jefferson and Madison’s blueprint against federal overreach could only have applied to a unique situation present in 1798. The Alien and Sedition Acts, they… »

  • Dave Benner
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Republicanism
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

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