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The Founders Club

The Founders Club
Tracing the Philosophical Roots of the U.S. Constitution
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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