Founding Fathers

Let’s Keep the Electoral College (Part 1) by Miguel A. Faria, MD

The American Founding Fathers established a Constitutional Republic with a federal system of government—that is, a national government vis-à-vis state governments. As noted in previous chapters, this federal system incorporated a series of checks and balances with separation of powers and both direct and indirect legislative representation. Within the conceptual framework, an Electoral College was […]

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A Constitutional Republic, Not a Social Democracy, ‘If We Can Keep It’ by Miguel A. Faria, MD

On September 18, 1787, the last day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the Founding Fathers concluded the drafting of the U.S. Constitution at Independence Hall, Mrs. Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Dr. Benjamin Franklin a pertinent question: “Well doctor,” she began, “what have we got—a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin answered, “A republic,

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The Democrats’ unwarranted partisan assault on the Electoral College by Miguel A. Faria, MD

Update: The assault on the Electoral college continues. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist from New York’s 14th Congressional District claims the Electoral College is a racist American relic that must be abolished: ” ‘It is well past time we eliminate the Electoral College, a shadow of slavery’s power on America today that undermines our nation

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Medical Politics During the Civil War

The Civil War’s immediate impact was felt mostly in America. It ended slavery, preserved the union, and in time reaffirmed the natural rights of man first proclaimed distinctly by the English physician-philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704). Locke is perhaps the foremost proponent of individual rights in the history of Anglo-American jurisprudence. He wrote that all human

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The Enlightenment — A triumph of classical not modern liberalism!

In a recent op-ed titled, “The ‘Enlightenment’ keeps on winning,” James A. Haught, an editor emeritus of a West Virginia newspaper, asserts in his latest column that since the advent of the Enlightenment, for three centuries, liberals have scored a string of historical victories over conservatives, and he “hopes the progressive pattern keeps rolling forever.”

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George Washington — Father of the United States of America

A book review of Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (2010) Excellent biographies of the Founding Fathers have been published in the last several decades. With these books, the nation seems to yearn for moral and political guidance from America’s founders — i.e., through their words, lives, and actions, as recounted in the pages of

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