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Britain was strengthened by the American Revolution, even though it resulted in the loss of her thirteen colonies that would eventually become the United States. Both she and the United States, ultimately, resolved the last of a conflict in Anglo-Saxon society that had raged since the Tudors: Do governments have a right to rule, or a duty? Is society the master of an economic structure, or a servant or product of it?

Thomas Paine is in our estimation the least appreciated of the founding fathers of America. More than anything or anyone else, his writings were responsible for the colonies' united decision to break from England. The two works he conceived and published in Boston in 1776, Common Sense and The American Crisis, were responsible for the Continental Congresses united decision to serve King George with the Declaration of independence and to immediately begin the Colonial Revolution. He wrote, “As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question, (and... had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry,) and as the king of England ha ...

Have you ever wondered how some authors can claim that the founding fathers of America were Christians while other authors claim that those very same founders were atheists, deists or even theistic rationalists? In this artfully written volume, Christian apologist and debater Bill Fortenberry examines several of the quotes from our founding fathers that are frequently used to argue against the Christian heritage of America. In doing so, Mr. Fortenberry opens up to us a treasury of facts about our nation's founding that have been hidden by modern scholarship.

President Trump’s Advisory 1776 Commission released its 1776 Report on Monday January 18, 2021. "In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We will—we must—always hold these truths. The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is ...

The American colonists were determined to move west, ever since the first settlements in North America. Even before the first shots were fired in the American Revolutionary War, in the year of 1763, the British proclamation to halt westward expansion was met with colonial disregard. As increasingly more settlers moved out west, past the Appalachian mountain. This independent mindedness and desire for self-tenacity is precisely the thing that leads to the cause for independence. While westward expansion was beneficial for the young nation, it was a tragedy for the native tribal nations and the native environments.