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Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992)   Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate ...

There can be no doubt that taxation without proper representation set the stage for the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War. Britain’s debt skyrocketed in the decade before the war and King George III made matters worse by ...

If the king fails to live up to his promise he can lose his right to rule by breaking the compact….Arbitrary rule, despotism, and tyranny amount to a material breach of the promise. —Gary Amos on Lex Rex, Defending the ...

…devout thanksgiving…penitent confession of our sins, and humble supplication for pardon, through the merits of our Savior. Thanksgiving Proclamation (1778) …to cause virtue and true religion to flourish, to give to all nations amity, peace and concord, and to fill ...

1776 John Adams, America’s second president, was well known for his love of Independence Day. Until the day he died, however, he also felt we had set the date two days late. Adams wrote that July 2, the date the ...

In 1989, a bargain hunter purchased a frayed painting at a flea market for $4. You can imagine his surprise when the shopper later discovered an old copy of the Declaration of Independence tucked away between the canvas and the ...

If you ask the next ten people you meet why we started this country, three or four will answer “taxation without representation” while the rest will shrug and amble on by. In truth, the Declaration of Independence listed twenty-seven reasons, ...

The right of revolution is metaphysical, not existential (and none may logically claim such a right who have not a metaphysics on which to found their case). —Clarence B. Carson, The Rebirth of Liberty (1976) The War for Independence The ...