Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and… Property?
Posted in From the Archives on 8 November 2010
Stats: 1,450 views and 4 Comments Today’s document, a short letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard E. Read on April 25, 1950, contains an interesting claim. Lane believes she once saw a reference where Thomas Jefferson, in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, wrote “Life, Liberty, and Property” and later changed the final ...
Posted in From the Archives on 8 November 2010
Stats: 1,450 views and 4 Comments Today’s document, a short letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard E. Read on April 25, 1950, contains an interesting claim. Lane believes she once saw a reference where Thomas Jefferson, in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, wrote “Life, Liberty, and Property” and later changed the final ...
Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read April 25, 1950
Posted in Document on 8 November 2010
Stats: 390 views and No Comments Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read April 25, 1950, which provides a reference to Lane's claim that Jefferson originally had "life, libery, and property" and later changed property to "the pursuit of happiness."
Posted in Document on 8 November 2010
Stats: 390 views and No Comments Letter from Rose Wilder Lane to Leonard Read April 25, 1950, which provides a reference to Lane's claim that Jefferson originally had "life, libery, and property" and later changed property to "the pursuit of happiness."
The Meaning of Liberty During the American Founding
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 896 views and No Comments In this lecture Professor Brad Birzer of Hillsdale College speaks to students about the importance of the idea of liberty for the American founding.
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 896 views and No Comments In this lecture Professor Brad Birzer of Hillsdale College speaks to students about the importance of the idea of liberty for the American founding.
Congress Declares Independence
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 2 July 2009
Stats: 363 views and 3 Comments What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. It had been drafted by a radical in Congress, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, but revised -- "toned down," it is ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 2 July 2009
Stats: 363 views and 3 Comments What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. It had been drafted by a radical in Congress, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, but revised -- "toned down," it is ...
