This volume contains over 20 essays, all previously published in The Freeman, that discuss the history, operation, and underlying ideas of the US constitution. Covering areas from natural law, to judicial review, to federalism, it offers a wide variety of topics and perspectives on the nature and functioning of this distinctly American form of government. In addition to the essays, the volume contains several historical documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution itself.
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Interesting article.
First of all, this entire episode is a flight of fancy by the person who wrote it. Ellis was a dime store novelist who made stories up to sell books. This was a good one, but he was not present and did not know Davey Crockett since the alleged speech took place 12 years before Ellis was born. {Davey Crockett was in congress from 1827-1831}.
Additionally, this story wasn’t added to the book “The life of Colonel Davey Crockett” until 6 years after it was originally published in 1861.
There is no record of appropriation for 20k for a fire in georgetown during Crocketts term.
Crockett did vote against awarding funds to widow brown, but he was not present for the vote and made no speech. Additionally, although crockett voted against it, the bill passed contrary to any claim in the article you posted.
Davey Crockett was illiterate and such eloquence is unlikely to flow from the mouth of a relatively uneducated man anyhow.
So although this article makes for good political fodder. It is by all measures a complete fabrication.
It is an embarassment to publish such rubbish when it is so clearly not true. Very irresponsible.
27 August 2010 at 12:22 am