September 17, 1997. Constitution Day. It was on this day two hundred and ten years ago when the Constitutional Convention that had gathered in Philadelphia adjourned, the delegates having voted to recommend to their fellow citizens the Constitution they had spent the hot summer in writing. This was seen as a momentous act. Some great deed had been accomplished, the likes of which had not been seen before. By 1789 enough states had ratified the Constitution to allow it to go into effect.| The American Founding
Those of us who love to study the American Founding, especially the Constitutional Convention, have lost a great scholar, teacher, and friend. Gordon Lloyd, as professor at Pepperdine University, distinguished professor in Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government program, and Senior Fellow at Ashbrook, dedicated nearly forty years to the study Read more...| The American Founding
Join Professor Gordon Lloyd, Dr. Chris Burkett, and Dr. Jeff Sikkenga as they discuss the United States Constitution on this, the 235th anniversary of its completion. Learn more about the American Founding and American history from The American Idea podcast.| The American Founding
Many of us have favorite stories we can recite by heart. They may be bedtime stories we heard as children – stories we repeat to the young people in our lives. We may know the stories of our families – where we came from and how we arrived where we are now. Some of these stories are fairy tales or tall tales, some have unfavorable points of departure, but most have happy endings.| The American Founding
Gordon Lloyd, Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center, is the coauthor of three books on the American Founding and sole author of a book on the political economy of the New Deal. He has documented the Founding in four highly regarded chapters that tell the story of America’s founding. The Case for Independence Constitutional Convention Debate Read more...| The American Founding
My hope is that scholars, teachers, high school students, and, particularly, the concerned citizen can have access to a story of the American Founding—not just a document here, a document there—but a story. Here, they can enter the story through the Declaration of Independence and they can see the closing of the story with the Bill of Rights. In between, they can see the creation of the Constitution and the ratification of that Constitution in state conventions as well as the public debat...| The American Founding
March 16 was the birthday of a little man who made a huge impact on America. At 5’4” and not much over 100 pounds, James Madison—our fourth President (1809-1817)—was the smallest of America’s Founders. But he was a Constitutional giant.| The American Founding
The New York Times is trying to “reframe” American history and its teaching by marking the introduction of African slaves into Virginia in 1619 as the year of our “true founding.” This effort denigrates our shared history and ignores the full American story.| The American Founding