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David Stewart’s review of John Ragosta ’s “For the People, for the Country” does an admirable job of highlighting Patrick Henry ’s opposition to the Alien and…

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<p>The religious right has hijacked the story of Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom, obscuring the law's intention to prevent the domination of the religious preferences of the powerful.</p>

Without Henry, there might not have been a United States. But the central role this sometimes forgotten Founding Father played in America’s Revolution and design of the young republic has been largely overlooked.

The Electoral College Results 1800 (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) The air is crisp, and the first hints of color are showing in the Blue Ridge, which means that pumpkin spice lattes and the fifty-ninth U.S. presidential election must be around the corner. It’s easy to think that we live in uniquely unsettling political times. But a look at the past shows that the country has weathered political storms in the past and come out the other side, although often battered from the tempest.  Encycl...