Tag: Thomas Jefferson

Patricia N. Saffran, Lee and the House of Wax Meltdown in Charlottesville

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by Patricia N. Saffran Every revolutionary since July 9, 1776 knows to pull down the statue of the oppressor. On that date at the Common in New York City, Thomas Jefferson read out loud the Declaration of Independence which he had written. Then the troops and crowd walked a mile down Broadway to Bowling Green. There they threw down the two ton gilded lead version of King George III as a mounted Roman emperor. The rabid crowd didn’t stop at merely toppling the statue. Captain John Montresor, a British officer,…

Case for President Trump Invoking Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity

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Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise an army to establish his own dynasty in what was then the Louisiana Territory. The Insurrection Act empowers the president of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops to suppress civil…