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* The Founders were conservatives by today's standards -- for gun rights, limited government, and religion in public life * George Washington fervently believed that God Himself saved the Revolution * Thomas Jefferson would have vetoed all federal domestic programs of the last one hundred years * John Adams considered virtue, morality, and religion to the bulwarks of a free republic * Alexander Hamilton did not believe in direct taxation or a large government debt * John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia, predicted the problems of modern state capitalism and central banking * The Founders believed in states' rights -- including the right to secede from the Union # How the Founders meant something very different by “all men are created equal” than most of us have been taught
# Why the Declaration of Independence did not refer to a “ United State” or even a “ United States” -- but rather to “ united States,” with each individual State having full power as an independent country
# How “national history standards” established in 1995 eliminated George Washington and many other Founding Fathers from curricula, replacing them with politically correct individuals and issues
# The U.S. a democracy? Why such a notion would have appalled the Founders -- who established us as something quite different: a republic
# Why the framers of the Constitution established the much-maligned and much-misunderstood Electoral College
# Did Thomas Jefferson father a child by a slave? How, if he were to stand trial with the current evidence in hand, an honest jury would find him “not guilty”
# How the Founders believed in religious liberty, but were not complete opponents of state-sponsored churches
# Samuel Adams: He predicted the Civil War and perceptively identified the weaknesses of a federal government -- weaknesses that are abundantly on display today
# The Founding Father who, although a slave holder, was an early proponent of the abolition of slavery, and is the antidote to the “politically correct” interpretation of the Founding generation (which is why he is so often ignored, forgotten, or misrepresented)
# The Founder who challenged the proposed Constitution, criticizing it for consolidating the states into one general government which could not, in his estimation, protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people
# The forgotten Founder who, when pressed about the powers of the central government, stated the only objectives of a Union of the states should be “first, defense against foreign danger; secondly, against internal disputes and a resort to force; thirdly, treaties with foreign nations; fourthly, regulating foreign commerce, and drawing revenue from it. ...All other matters, civil and criminal, would be much better left in the hands of the states.”
# Elbridge Gerry -- known for more than just gerrymandering: How he believed Congress should have little power and the other government branches even less
# The sense of conservatism that separated the American Revolution from the French Revolution that sought to create an entirely new politics and even a new religion
# The Founder who declared he was “a friend to a strong and efficient government” but warned “we may erect a system that will destroy the liberties of the people”
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