Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

" Those willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both." Benjamin Franklin

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Daniel Hannan's new book, The New Road to Serfdom, hearkens back to Hayek's masterpiece, but its subtitle, A Letter of Warning to America really says it all. As a long time member of the European Parliament, he has seen what lies farther down the road we are traveling and is urging us to turn back now.

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Noah Webster might rightly deserve the appellation of Founding Father for his contributions to American culture and education alone. In his soon-to-be-released book, The Forgotten Founding Father, Joshua Kendall offers insight into the man and his accomplishments and justifies the claim.

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This Friday's crossword is brought to you by German, British, and French notables during and after the American Revolution.

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We know a lot about what the Founders thought and the philosophical views they had because of their prolific letter writing and extensive chronicling of events. Those who dig into this wealth of material will begin to understand what set them apart and what the founding principles really were.

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Introducing a new feature at WWTFT, the history puzzle. This weeks puzzle can be answered easily by anyone who's read Chernow's new biography of George Washington and/or his biography of Hamilton.

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Federalist No. 8 is another essay in which Hamilton argues for maintaining the Union (and ratification of the Constitution as the best means of doing so.) In it he depicts the likelihood of hostilities between separate states or confederacies and the consequent curtailment of liberty.

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Who wrote the Constitution anyway? The men behind the signatures were called an "assembly of demigods", by Jefferson (who was, incidentally not one of the signers). While not divine, they were nonetheless remarkable.

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The essential guide to understanding the Constitution and rolling back the progressive assault on our liberties.

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In anti-Federalist No. 1, Brutus argues against ratification of the new Constitution on the basis of his concerns about the amount of power to be vested in the new government. His concerns were not unjustified.

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