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Introduction | |
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Myths, Realities, and the Issues of the Founding Generation | |
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The Myths | |
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Myth: The Founding generation created a democracy | |
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Myth: The Founding Fathers really believed everyone was equal | |
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Myth: Slavery was a sin of the Southern founders | |
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Myth: Paul Revere single-handedly warned the Boston countryside of the impending British invasion | |
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Myth: Benjamin Franklin had thirteen to eighty illegitimate children! | |
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Myth: Thomas Jefferson kept a concubine slave and fathered children with her! | |
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Myth: Washington had an affair with his neighbor's wife! | |
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Myth: Alexander Hamilton had a gay lover! | |
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A Conservative Revolution | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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Who's sovereign now? | |
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"Experience must be our only guide" | |
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"The public mind... is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government" | |
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The Issues | |
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Give me back my gun! | |
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A godless society? | |
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The states (and the people) are sovereign | |
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A limited executive | |
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Abolish the Fed! | |
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A "president's" war? | |
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"No Taxation without Representation!" | |
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Who said that's unconstitutional? | |
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John Adams is a war-mongering scoundrel! | |
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Give me my welfare! | |
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The Men The Big Six | |
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George Washington | |
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The first American hero | |
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The Revolution | |
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Duty calls | |
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The last years | |
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The Washington effect | |
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Thomas Jefferson | |
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Patriot | |
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Diplomat and secretary of state | |
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Retirement and vice president | |
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The presidency | |
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The Jeffersonian tradition | |
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John Adams | |
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The Revolution | |
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"His rotundity" | |
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The insecure president | |
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Retirement | |
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James Madison | |
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"Father of the Constitution" | |
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The Federal career | |
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The fourth president | |
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Death and legacy | |
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Alexander Hamilton | |
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The Revolution | |
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The best government the country will permit | |
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Secretary of the Treasury | |
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Retirement and duel | |
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Legacy | |
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Benjamin Franklin | |
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Cautious revolutionary | |
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The man in the fur cap | |
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The grandfather of the Republic | |
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The Forgotten Founders | |
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Samuel Adams | |
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Firebrand | |
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Anti-Federalist | |
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton | |
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Signer | |
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Mild Federalist | |
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George Clinton | |
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Anti-Federalist governor | |
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Vice President Clinton | |
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A states' rights patriot | |
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John Dickinson | |
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"Penman of the Revolution" | |
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The Convention | |
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Retirement | |
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Elbridge Gerry | |
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The "self-serving" politician? | |
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Gerry vs. Mason | |
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John Hancock | |
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"Treasonous" John Hancock | |
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The governor | |
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Patrick Henry | |
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The Revolution | |
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The Constitution | |
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Red Hill | |
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Richard Henry Lee | |
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Those who love liberty | |
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Virginian | |
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Nathaniel Macon | |
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The Quid | |
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The Republican of Buck Spring | |
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Francis Marion | |
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The Swamp Fox | |
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The politically incorrect soldier | |
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John Marshall | |
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Chief Justice | |
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The architect of big government | |
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George Mason | |
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The "retired" revolutionary | |
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"Objections to the Federal Constitution" | |
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Slavery | |
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Roger Sherman | |
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The Atlas | |
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The Connecticut Compromise | |
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John Taylor of Caroline | |
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Secessionist | |
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The pamphleteer | |
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Conclusion: What the Founding Fathers Would Do | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |