Two little-known men had enormous influence during America’s runup to revolution. Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) and Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) were students of history and political science. Both advocated revolution when necessary,… Read more »
In a rambling chapter from his Discourses Concerning Government, Algernon Sidney wrote of a simple truth; when governors take their nation down an obvious path to tyranny, the governed have the… Read more »
The ideals of our revolutionary era were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment soldier, politician, ambassador, polemicist Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). They wrote their best works… Read more »
Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments burst on the conservative scene in August 2013. Its appeal was not limited to conservative media outlets in talk radio and the internet; the book shot… Read more »
The American republic is on its knees. No methodical and orderly process like that in Article V can keep up with the pace of unconstitutional executive branch and scotus derived… Read more »
If there is one aspect of the crisis that Convention of States supporters and opponents can agree on, is that our governing institutions have been corrupted from their constitutional purposes… Read more »
If any one man can be said to have intellectually armed the American colonists for rebellion, it was Algernon Sidney. So thorough was his impact that historians described his posthumously… Read more »
A man of great intellectual influence on our founding generation was the late 17th century martyr for freedom, Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). Born the second son in a noble family whose… Read more »
As an observer and polemicist of the civil society, any civil society, few can surpass Algernon Sidney. Popularly derived governments are associated with occasional tumults and disorders. The people are… Read more »
Do a wiki search of Algernon Sidney. Sidney was a contemporary of today’s better-known John Locke. Both lived in a tumultuous and dangerous latter 17th century Stuart England. Like Locke,… Read more »