When Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping dismantled the Great Leap Forward, Mao launched a blistering attack on “modern revisionism”. At the party convocation in 1962, Mao and Liu went head to head to defend and justify their points. […]
In the aftermath of the plague spreading through Europe, many farms became unattended, causing livestock to run free with no one to feed them. […]
After the plague, everyone who survived was pretty much better off than they had been before. A new pattern emerged in the economy that unsettled a few individuals. […]
When the plague swept through Europe and its medieval society, it affected everyone’s life. Nobody was safe, and nobody could claim to be unaffected by the epidemic. […]
Some Native Americans took a direct approach of relating the protection of traditional practices to the rights that U.S. citizens held dear. […]
In the very first Federalist, Hamilton laid down six themes by which Publius would demonstrate the indispensability of the new Constitution. […]
James Wilson didn’t actually spend much time explaining or elucidating, but punched back at the anti-Constitutionalists’ arguments. […]
On October 7, 1787, George Mason wrote to George Washington regarding his objections to the new Constitution. Washington was not amused. […]
The American Constitution was, and is, remarkable just for being written. It is also unique for the way it divides sovereignty. […]
The Constitutional Convention gave new powers to the new federal Congress so as to ensure domestic tranquility in America. […]
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