The Founders Club

Tracing the Philosophical Roots of the U.S. Constitution

Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

As the American Revolution was winding to an end, Burke would be put in charge of investigating alleged British injustices in India in...

Edmund Burke and the American Revolution

Edmund Burke was born on January 12, 1729, in Dublin, Ireland to a merchant class Irish family with no great esteem. His father Richard...

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and Age of Reason

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...

Thomas Paine's Common Sense and American Crisis

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of...

John Locke's Second Treatise | The State of Nature

In Locke’s first treatise, Locke destroyed the idea of the Divine Right of Kings which legitimized absolute monarchy. You can check out...

John Locke's First Treatise | The Rebuttal

Before we can fully grasp Locke’s first Treatise of Government, we have to understand Locke as an individual and the society he was...

Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws

When our founding fathers were challenged with the task of forming a government they looked to the writings of Montesquieu & the rich...