8 John Smith, as cited by Elisa Carbone, Blood on the River: James Town 1607 (Viking Press, 2006).
9 William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation.
10 Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 32.
11 Michael Novak, On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (Encounter Books, 2001), 6–7.
12 Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 112.
13 John Adams, letter to Hezekiah Niles, 1818, Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 1; cited by Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007), 72.
14 Melanie Randolph Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), 187.
15 Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 116.
CHAPTER TWO
1 Taken from “America’s Bill of Rights at 200 Years,” by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, printed in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. XXI, No. 3, Summer 1991, p. 457. This anecdote appears in numerous other works as well.
2 Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist on the New Constitution (Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), 53, #10, James Madison.
3 John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850), Vol. VI, p. 484, to John Taylor on April 15, 1814.
4 Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 60.
5 Quoted in The Future of Religion in American Politics, ed. Charles W. Dunn (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 105, in an 1811 letter to Benjamin Rush.
6 Quoted in Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Public, 1776–1787 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 95.
7 Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 44.
8 Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 22.
9 George Whitefield, “The Great Duty of Family Religion”; available at: http://www.biblebb.com/files/gw-006.htm (accessed April 20, 2011).
10 Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Edition, 1996).
11 Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Madison Books, 1990), 41.
12 Benjamin Franklin, “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America,” written in 1794 and reprinted at Founding.com; available at: http://www.founding.com/founders_library/pageID.2148/default.asp (accessed April 20, 2011).
13 Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, written in 1776 and reprinted at Founding.com; available at: http://www.founding.com/founders_library/pageID.2146/default.asp (accessed April 20, 2011).
14 Howard S. Miller, “Legal Foundation of American Philanthropy, 1776–1844,” The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison 1961; available at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/philanthropyclassics/pdf_files/Miller.pdf (accessed April 20, 2011).
15 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), Chapter 12.
16 Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Public, 293.
17 Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist on the New Constitution (Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), 53, #57.
18 Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 151.
CHAPTER THREE
1 “Speech By President Sarkozy Before Congress,” November 7, 2007, New York Sun; available at: http://www.nysun.com/national/speech-by-presidentsarkozy-before-congress/66054/5 (accessed April 19, 2011).
2 Real American Stories, One Nation United, “Alp Gurpinar”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/alp-gurpinar/?curpage=12 (accessed April 19, 2011).
3 “Full Transcript of Julia Gillard’s Speech to U.S. Congress,” March 10, 2011, Herald Sun; available at: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/fulltranscript-of-julia-gillards-speech-to-us-congress/story-e6frf7lf-1226018899482 (accessed April 19, 2011).
4 “Citizenship: The Pursuit of Happiness,” ReasonTV; available at: http://reason.tv/video/show/the-pursuit-of-happiness (accessed April 19, 2011).
5 Ibid.
6 Tony Blair, “Tony Blair on Clinton, Bush, and the American Character,” Time, September 2, 2010; available at: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2015409-3,00.html (accessed April 19, 2011).
7 Real American Stories, One Nation United, “Alp Gurpinar”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/alp-gurpinar/?curpage=13 (accessed April 19, 2011).
8 Apostolic Journey To the United States of America and Visit to the United Nations Organization Headquarters, Welcoming Ceremony, Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI, April 16, 2008; available at: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/april/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080416_welcome-washington_en.html (accessed April 19, 2011).
9 ABCNews “ABC’s Jeffrey Kofman on Becoming an American Citizen,” February 25, 2010, The World Newser [blog]; available at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/02/abcs-jeffrey-kofman-on-becomingan-american-citizen.html. (accessed April 19, 2011).
10 Posted by FFree Thinker2, “Christopher Hitchens: America—The Greatest Country in the World?” May 2, 2009; video available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cQZNcaujs&feature=related (accessed April 19, 2011).
11 Posted by chosun79, “Anthony Kim—The American Dream,” October 1, 2008; video available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNhuowMs9-0 (accessed April 19, 2011).
12 Posted by NETNebraska, “I Am an American—Nebraska Stories,” November 4, 2009; video available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klX9aRvpO7A (accessed April 19, 2011).
13 Real American Stories, One Nation United, “Giuliana Rancic”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/giuliana-rancic/?curpage=7 (accessed April 19, 2011).
14 Real American Stories, “Teuta Dedvukaj”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/teuta-dedvukaj-new/?curpage=8 (accessed April 19, 2011).
15 Real American Stories, “A Perfect Fit—NEW”; available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/a-perfect-fit/ (accessed April 19, 2011).
16 Real American Stories “George Padavil”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/george-padavil/?curpage=14 (accessed April 19, 2011).
17 Real American Stories, One Nation United, ”Oleg Haskel”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/oleg-haskel/?curpage=14 (accessed April 19, 2011).
18 Real American Stories, One Nation United, “Tova Friedman”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/tova-friedman-new/?curpage=5 (accessed April 19, 2011).
19 Real American Stories, One Nation United, “NEW Global Soap Project”; video available at: http://www.realamericanstories.com/global-soap-projectnew/?curpage=1 (accessed April 19, 2011).
CHAPTER FOUR
1 “The Christian Religion by David Barton,” David Barton Blog, August 10, 2010; available at http://www.davidbarton.org/2010/08/17/the-christianreligion-by-david-barton/ (accessed April 26, 2011).
2 Carl Pearlston, “Is America a Christian Nation?” Connecticut Jewish Ledger , April, 2001; available at: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0040.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
3 Charles W. Dunn, The Conservative Tradition in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), 134.
4 “The Moral Basis of a Free Society,” The Hoover Institution, November 1, 1997; available at: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6486.
5 Revelation 3:20.
6 Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, 39.
7 Albert Enoch Pillsbury, Lincoln and Slavery (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 30.
8 The Constitution and Declaration of Independence as Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Willard L. King and Allan Nevins, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 52, No. 1, Lincoln Sesquicentennial (Spring, 1959),
21.
9 Alexandra Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (American Crossroads), 210.
10 Leila Zenderland, Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology), 274.
11 “Eugenics and the Nazis–the California connection,” San Francisco Chronicle (9 November 2003).
12 African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”; available at: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
13 Ibid.
14 Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; available at: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/061287d.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
15 Ibid.
16 Address at Commencement Exercises at the University of Notre Dame, May 17, 1981, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; available at: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/51781a.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
17 Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1983 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; available at: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/30883b.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
18 “Dissenting Opinion of Wallace v. Jeffree,” Justice William Renquist, June 4, 1985; available at: http://www.belcherfoundation.org/wallace_v_jaffree_dissent.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
19 Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962).
20 Abingdon School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963).
21 Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980).
22 Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985).
23 Allegheny County v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989).
24 Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1992).
25 Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District, 508 U.S. 384 (1993).
26 Locke v. Davey, 540 U.S. 712 (2004).
27 McCreary County v. ACLU, 545 U.S. 844 (2005).
28 For more instances of the assault on religious liberty, see www.alliancedefensefund.org.
29 “Defending Religious Freedom in America,” ADF; available at: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/ReligiousFreedom (accessed April 26, 2011).
30 Barton v. City of Balch Springs; more information available at: http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=900005543320 (accessed April 26, 2011).
31 “Report Documents Attacks on Religious Freedom,” North Carolina Family Policy Council, October, 2004; available at: http://www.ncfamily.org/stories/041025s1.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
32 Vince Haley, “Save the Wren Chapel,” National Review Online, November 17, 2006; available at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219285/save-wren-chapel/vince-haley (accessed April 26, 2011).
33 “Missouri school sued by student who refused to support gay adoptions,” USA Today, November 2, 2006; available at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-02-gay-adoption_x.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
34 Catherina Lorenza Cenzon-Decarlo v. The Mount Sinai Hospital; available at: http://oldsite.alliancedefensefund.org/userdocs/Cenzon-DeCarloComplaint.pdf (accessed April 26, 2011).
35 “Religious Speech and Hate Crimes,” ADF; available at: www.alliancedefensefund.org/UserDocs/ChurchHateCrimes.pdf (accessed April 26, 2011).
36 “‘How he linked abortion and slavery,’” California Catholic Daily, News Release from Marin Catholic High School, January 12, 2010; available at: http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6f41c695-55f9-489c-b1ec-7ffe90022e94 (April 26, 2011).
37 “Christians threatened with arrest in Richmond for sharing Gospel, lawsuit filed,” ADF News Release, February 1, 2010; available at: http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/3696 (accessed April 26, 2011).
38 “Group Loses Tax Break Over Gay Union Issue,” New York Times, September 18, 2007; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/nyregion/18grove.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
39 “The Homosexual Agenda: The Principal Threat to Your Religious Freedom,” ADF; available at: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/Marriage (accessed April 26, 2011).
40 “Public Schools Intolerant of Religious Expression,” ADF; available at: http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/PublicSchools (accessed April 26, 2011).
41 Ibid.
42 George Washington’s Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789, National Archives; available at: http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/gw-inauguration/ (accessed April 26, 2011).
43 William J. Bennett, The De-Valuing of America (CO: Focus on the Family Pub, 1994), 255.
44 “Proposition 8 Cases,” California State Supreme Court, May 26, 2009; available at: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S168047.PDF (accessed April 26, 2011), and Lisa Leff, “Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal,” The Washington Times, August 16, 2010; available at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/court-halts-calif-gaymarriages-pending-appeal/ (accessed April 26, 2011).
45 Steven Ertelt, “New Planned Parenthood Report: Record Abortions Done in 2009,” LifeNews.com, February 23, 2011; available at: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/23/new-planned-parenthood-report-record-abortions-done-in-2009/ (accessed April 28, 2011).
46 Pierce v. Society of Sisters, US Supreme Court, June 1, 1925; available at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/510/case.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
47 Wisconsin v. Yoder, US Supreme Court, May 15, 1972; available at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/406/205/case.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
48 IN RE: VISITATION AND CUSTODY OF SENTURIN.S.V. (October 25, 2007); available at: http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/docs/fall07/33334.htm (accessed April 26, 2011).
49 ParentalRights.org, from footnote 2 to article, http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp. ?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={571D1CA7-1BA8-4E61-A55A-EE75EAD37DCE}: “This was not a reported decision and personal names are withheld in such cases as a matter of course. Our source for this information was Michael Farris, J.D., who advised the parents relative to this case.”
50 In Re: Sumey, 94 Wn. 2d 757, 621 P. 2d 108 (1980); available at: http://www.nymatlaw.com/sumey-621-p2d-108/ (accessed April 26, 2011).
51 “Homeschooling: Helping Children Achieve Academic and Personal Success,” Calvert School, 2010; available at: http://homeschool.calvertschool.org/downloads/Calvert_Homeschooling_Academic_Success.pdf (accessed April 26, 2011).
52 Brian Ray, Ph.D., “Research Facts on Homeschooling,” The National Home Education Research Institute, January 11, 2011; available at: http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-Homeschooling.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
53 Charles Dexter Cleveland, A Compendium of American Literature (Philadelphia, 1859), 273–74.
CHAPTER FIVE
1 Corinne Maier, Hello Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Pay, trans. David Watson (London: Orion, 2005).
2 Rebecca Leung, “France: Less Work, More Time Off,” CBS News 60 Minutes , June 29, 2005, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/27/60II/main704571.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody (accessed April 25, 2011).
3 Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991).
4 Ibid., 39–40.
5 Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 40.
6 Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, 91.
7 From Ken Burns, Brooklyn Bridge, PBS Documentary, 1981.
8 George Washington, Letter to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784.
9 Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience (New York: Vintage Books, 1958), 10.
10 Frederick Jackson Turner, Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 31.
11 Ibid., 59.
12 Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (New York: Penguin, 2004).
13 Alex Hutchinson, “The Top 50 Inventions of Past 50 Years,” Popular Mecha
nics, December 1, 2005, http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/2078467 (accessed April 18, 2011).
14 Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, 99–100.
15 Robert Rector, Katherine Bradley, and Rachel Sheffield, “Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare: Uncovering the Full Cost of Means-Tested Welfare or Aid to the Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, Special Report #67, 2009.
16 Peter Ferrara, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb (New York: HarperCollins, 2011).
17 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 80, “Income in 1970 of Families and Persons in the United States,” p. 26.
18 U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 180, “Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States: 1991,” p. 7.
19 Peter J. Ferrara, “It’s Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States,” Forbes. com, February 23, 2011; available at: http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/23/welfare-poverty-economics-opinions-contributors-peter-ferrara.html (accessed April 28, 2011).
20 Ron Haskins, “Welfare Reform: Success or Failure? It Worked,” Brookings Institution, March 15, 2006, http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2006/0315welfare_haskins.aspx (accessed April 25, 2011).
CHAPTER SIX
1 “Five Years After Katrina: Progress Report on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal,” Office of Governor Haley Barbour, August 29, 2010; available at: http://www.governorbarbour.com/news/2010/aug/Katrina5years.pdf (accessed April 25, 2011).
2 Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991), 135.
3 Ibid., 135.
4 Gordon Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Penguin, 2004), 42, 49.
5 Charles Morris, American Catholic (New York: Times Books, 1997), 17–18.
6 Alexis de Tocquevile, Democracy in America, Part I, ch. 12.
7 Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 328–29.
8 Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, para 75.
9 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Part II, ch. 5.
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