7
Joseph R. Fornieri, ed.
The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2009), 576.
CHAPTER ONE
1
Michael Kammen,
The People of Paradox
(New York: Cornell University Press, 1972), 13.
2
Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 66.
3
Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
(Vintage Press, 1993), 13.
4
John Adams, “Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813,” in
The Works of John Adams: Second President of the United States
, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1856), 45â46.
5
Quoted in Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
.
6
Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
.
7
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
(New York: Harper Collins, 1997), 116.
8
John Smith, as cited by Elisa Carbone,
Blood on the River: James Town 1607
(Viking Press, 2006).
9
William Bradford,
Of Plymouth Plantation
.
10
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
, 32.
11
Michael Novak,
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
(Encounter Books, 2001), 6â7.
12
Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
, 112.
13
John Adams, letter to Hezekiah Niles, 1818, Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
, 1; cited by Dinesh D'Souza,
What's So Great About Christianity
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007), 72.
14
Melanie Randolph Miller,
Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution
(Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), 187.
15
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
, 116.
CHAPTER TWO
1
Taken from “America's Bill of Rights at 200 Years,” by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, printed in
Presidential Studies Quarterly
, Vol. XXI, No. 3, Summer 1991, p. 457. This anecdote appears in numerous other works as well.
2
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison,
The Federalist on the New Constitution
(Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), 53, #10, James Madison.
3
John Adams,
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States
, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850), Vol. VI, p. 484, to John Taylor on April 15, 1814.
4
Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
, 60.
5
Quoted in
The Future of Religion in American Politics
, ed. Charles W. Dunn (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 105, in an 1811 letter to Benjamin Rush.
6
Quoted in Gordon S. Wood,
The Creation of the American Public, 1776â1787
(Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 95.
7
Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
, 44.
8
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
, 22.
10
Benjamin Franklin,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
(Dover Thrift Edition, 1996).
11
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
(Madison Books, 1990), 41.
15
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), Chapter 12.
16
Gordon S. Wood,
The Creation of the American Public,
293.
17
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison,
The Federalist on the New Constitution
(Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), 53, #57.
18
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
, 151.
CHAPTER THREE
6
Tony Blair, “Tony Blair on Clinton, Bush, and the American Character,”
Time,
September 2, 2010; available at:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2015409-3,00.html
(accessed April 19, 2011).
CHAPTER FOUR
3
Charles W. Dunn,
The Conservative Tradition in America
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
,
134.
6
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People,
39.
7
Albert Enoch Pillsbury,
Lincoln and Slavery
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 30.
8
The Constitution and Declaration of Independence as Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Willard L. King and Allan Nevins,
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984)
, Vol. 52, No. 1, Lincoln Sesquicentennial (Spring, 1959), 21.
9
Alexandra Stern,
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
(American Crossroads), 210.
10
Leila Zenderland,
Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing
(Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology), 274.
11
“Eugenics and the Nazisâthe California connection,”
San Francisco Chronicle
(9 November 2003).
19
Engel v. Vitale
, 370 U.S. 421 (1962).
20
Abingdon School District v. Schempp
, 374 U.S. 203 (1963).
21
Stone v. Graham
, 449 U.S. 39 (1980).
22
Wallace v. Jaffree
, 472 U.S. 38 (1985).
23
Allegheny County v. ACLU
, 492 U.S. 573 (1989).
24
Lee v. Weisman
, 505 U.S. 577 (1992).