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Devotion to an Autocrat is NOT Patriotism

Honor is like an island; Steep and without Shore; They who once leave; Can never return.  French poet Nicholas Boileau Originally Published January 26, 2021 It is with a heavy heart that as senior editor of Revolutionary War Journal, I must share with my readers my outrage over the horrendous attack on our nation’s capitol …

James Madison Champion of Democracy and Dolley Madison, the True First Lady

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people. James Madison, 1793 According to University of Virginia Professor John Stagg, James Madison, our fourth president, was “from the early days of the American …