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american history
- A method for changing systems
What the American Constitution established was not simply a particular system but a process for changing systems, practices, and leaders, together with a method of constraining whoever or whatever was ascendant at any…
- Mores, then laws, then geography
But the strongest prop of American order, Tocqueville found, was their body of moral habits. “I here mean the term ‘mores’ (moeurs) to have its original Latin meaning; I mean it to apply not only to “moeurs” in the st…
- Gratitude on the 4th of July
My latest post on the importance of remembering what makes the American flavor of independence unique: Something unique about the American Founders' flavor of revolution was that it was the first (only?) of the revolu…