Topic: George Washington

Risks of Populist Social Backlashes Continue to Rise

SeekingAlpha - 736 days ago
My post entitled Bare cupboards, cranky people, which discussed the social risks of a populist backlash, whether from the left or the right, brought a protest from a reader about the Tea Party movement: The rights that my son, as an infantryman ...

The Tea Party: Against Obama, For What?

Crosswalk - 737 days ago
The Tea Party Convention in Nashville was another expression of what the founders had in mind when they wrote our Constitution, " They don't like being told to shut-up until election day and then to vote only for those the elites have ...

A Capitol Vision From a Self-Taught Architect

Smithsonian - 1178 days ago
In the torrid summer of 1792, William Thornton, the 33-year-old son of wealthy planters on the Caribbean island of Tortola, labored over a set of architectural drawings. As his sheaf of sketches grew, Thornton's thoughts were focused on the nation that had ...

What Is Bush's Executive Privilege?

About.com - 1683 days ago
Presidents of the United States -- beginning with George Washington -- have claimed that the separation of powers articulated in the Constitution grants the Executive Branch the right to resist some Congressional or Judiciary requests for information. The House of Representatives asked ...