Tag: founding fathers
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Don’t forget the founding mothers of America | Paul Batura
America’s founding fathers are in the spotlight this week, and rightly so. Without the resolute leadership of George Washington, the moral fortitude of John Adams, the fluid pen of Thomas Jefferson and the thoughtful and intellectual genius of James Madison, to name just a few of our nation’s famed architects, there may never have been…
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The interdependence at the heart of American independence | Vince Bzdek
Way up high in one of the gables of the Jefferson Memorial, a pediment sculpture depicts the renowned Committee of Five. The sculpture is a reminder that the Declaration of Independence was not the work of one man, Thomas Jefferson, but rather a close collaboration of five illustrious Founders. That’s right, the writing of our…