The Framers understood that part of human nature is to amass, entrench and ultimately abuse power, so there must be ...

Indeed, the American Revolution was a Lockean Revolution ... In his address to Parliament, Camden recognized Locke’s achievement with words that surely incensed his colleagues.

No taxation without representation” may be one of the most famous sayings in American history. Although the phrase had its ...

Something of a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, it called for greater American autonomy and limits on Parliament's power over the colonies. The first session of the Second Continental ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...