Happy Independence Day

American Liberty Reconsidered by Lee Cheek

Recovering the Declaration of Independence by Lee Cheek and Sean Busick

Patriotism: A Necessary Sentiment by Clyde Wilson

Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson Revisted By H. Lee Cheek, Jr.

Mel Bradford has argued that no individual has exerted more influence upon the development of a profession of letters this century in the South than Donald Davidson. The poet, essayist, and social critic is well… »

Lee Cheek on Ian Crowe's Book on Burke

Edmund Burke, Rightly Understood by Lee Cheek

Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ian Crowe

Lee Those Who Revere Him Uphold His Memory

And those who do not, they are no friends of mine...

Should Yale Erase the Name of John C. Calhoun? by Lee Cheek

Nomocracy in Politics: “Weighing Publius’s Constitutional Morality,” By H. Lee Cheek

An Intellectual Legacy for Southrons

Freedom & Tradition: M.E. Bradford’s Southern Patrimony by Mark Malvasi

Allen Tate and the Agrarian Mission by Lee Cheek

H. Lee Cheek on John C. Calhoun

“The Last Roman”: John Caldwell Calhoun

Related:
Russell Kirk

H. Lee Cheek on Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind

The Conservative Mind’s Continuing Relevance at Sixty

Rethinking Liberty

A New History of Political Ideas by Lee Cheek


A Conservative Historian’s Memoir by George Nash
Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir, by Forrest McDonald, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 198 pp.

The Declaration of Independence

Recovering the Declaration of Independence by Sean Busick & Lee Cheek Jr.

Related:
Thomas Jefferson and the American Declaration of Independence: The Power and Natural Rights of a Free People by Ross Lence

We want a king, too.

Just like the Israelites of old?

A desire for self-rule is not bad, if a people is qualified for it... how many Uhmericans practically worship the Chief of the Federal Executive?


Washington’s General-Worship by William Astore (AmCon)
Our pampered brass are the proconsuls of the American Imperium

The Founding Fathers Made The Presidency For Washington; Letter of Pierce Butler
by Mike Church

The Idea That Will Not Die: Secession
by H. Lee Cheek, Jr., and Sean R. Busick

More from The Imaginative Conservative:
The Wonders of Democracy (?) by Bruce Frohnen
Secession, the Humane Scale of Politics, and American Identity by Douglas C. Minson
What Are American Traditions? by Russell Kirk

Sean R. Busick and H. Lee Cheek Jr. on the Declaration of Independence

Guest column: Recovering the Declaration, and its meaning to our nation by Sean R. Busick and H. Lee Cheek Jr. (via Peter Haworth)

It is in the Declaration of Independence that we see best how the Founders envisioned state and federal authority uniting to form a national union.


Contrary to the now-popular view that regards the Declaration as Holy Writ, the Founders viewed the great document as illuminating and explaining the foundations of the American republic as resting upon a political compact. Such an agreement formed a republic in which there existed the same equality of rights among the states composing the union as existed among the citizens composing the states themselves.


The Declaration claimed legitimacy for a political compact that had developed with "time and experience" into a model of political and social stability. It preserved the center of authority within each individual state, and it allowed for secession when government "becomes destructive of these ends," for then "it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it."


While the Declaration appropriately described the status of "Free and Independent States" as essential to the republic, the document also confirmed the true story of the creation of the country: the states "ordained" or created the republic.


The Declaration introduced — or rather, officially recognized — the original design of the republic. The Articles of Confederation, the first American constitution, incorporated this design into the fundamental law of the regime. For the Founders, the provisions and language of the Articles served as an authentic guide to the American Constitution.


The Constitution of 1787 cannot be understood without first understanding the defense of local authority contained in the Articles. Drafted in stages from 1776 to 1777, the Articles extended and revised the Declaration's defense of local and state authority, and the delineation of state autonomy, while establishing popular rule based upon the deliberative, decentralized, community-centered participation of the citizenry. As with the Declaration, the Articles recognized the original design for a union of liberty, a republic of independent and sovereign states.

Plus, from Dr. Fleming: My Sweet Old Etcetera.

More Links of Interest

More stuff I missed while I was in Arizona...

Dear Friends . . . or Maybe Not! by Mary Vander Goot

America Loses Control by Patrick J. Buchanan

Paul Gottfried Discusses Paleolibertarianism with Richard Spencer - Ron Paul, Rothbard, and Race

Lee Cheek, W. H. Mallock Revisited
Daniel Larison, Scruton’s The Uses of Pessimism

Peter Hitchens, Welcome to 2042, the Year When Britain is No More Than a Memory and Small Expectations and Our Conversation Resumed

A Jeffersonian Kansas

A Catholic's Case for Ron Paul

Revenge of the Nerd By Daniel J. Flynn
It’s Ray Bradbury’s future—we’re just living in it.

Obama Signs Legislation Killing Bill of Rights; Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Rachel Maddow Skewer Obama; Road to Tyranny; Complete List of Senatorial Cowards Backing the Bill

Decentralize Now

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak Oil: The Implications for Planning Policy (review) by Rick Munroe

Michael Shedlock, Additional 2012 Predictions: Trade Wars, US Election, Precious Metals, Energy and Population: The Elephant in the Room; Peak Oil Implications on Population Growth; What Level of Human Population is Sustainable?

James Howard Kunstler, 2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper

Counterpunch:
The Sunni-Shia Wars by PATRICK COCKBURN
Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack on Iran by GARETH PORTER
Ron Paul and the Killing Machine by MIKE WHITNEY
Arise, Students of California by RALPH NADER
12 Great Books by RALPH NADER

Feminism, MRA, and Marriage:
Fathers Matter
As Recession Drags on Young Women Too Picky for Jobs, Choose School
American Sex Roles Unnerving to Eastern European Women
Dealing With Her Time Release Brain Bombs
Captain and Bored Passenger
Elusive Wapiti, So Close, Yet So Far
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hate Porn for Feminists
Finding Our Own Truth
Brainwashing Norway
Conservative Woman Misses Point

Diet and Health:
Introducing The Primal Blueprint, Updated and Expanded Paperback Edition
My Primal Transformation: Discovering the Art of Fit

Catholic:
The Name of Jesus Makes a Contemplative Man
The Holy Name of Jesus and the Holy Face

Rorate Caeli:
SSPX-Rome: Écône theology professor responds to Opus Dei vicar general
How the Neocatechumenal Way defended their liturgy in 2004
Reform of the Reform: is the Kiko Rite approval coming up?
Six years of Pontificate and the Sacred Liturgy: So this is it?
The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 3 - the Bishop of Antwerp on celibacy and the ordination of women

Dominican Rite:
On the Vesture of Deacon and Subdeacon in the Dominican Rite
Gospel Canticles in Dominican Chant

Anglican Ordinariate:
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
Thirty Seconds Out!

Jeffrey Tucker, Chant has a tradition
On that alto in the Shrine choir
Chant: The Master Path
“The rediscovery of Gregorian chant is a sine qua non condition to give back dignity to the liturgical music.”

Milestone in Decline in Latin
Cardinal Ranjith calls for return of Vetus Ordo

The Church Militant By Frank Borzellieri
PC is the Dogma
Catholic Layman Says: Despite The U.S. Bishops, Church Doctrine Is Not Pro-Immigration!

Catholic World Report's new editor introduces himself, and the new online CWR
The Catholic World Report Archives are Open

Requiem for the Third See of Christendom by Robert Spencer

Beijing's Bishop Declares Support for Communist Party

Another book...

The Imaginative Conservative: A Useful, New Introduction to the Inherited Tradition of Political Ideas by Lee Cheek

William Spellman, A Short History of Western Political Thought (Palgrave)