John Joachim Zubly: PART 3, A Patriot Essayist Whose Cause Was Lost
byIn the 1760s and through 1775 John J. Zubly was the leading Whig in Georgia. He wrote a number of sermons and political tracts…
Samuel Chase
John Joachim Zubly: PART 2, A Patriot Congressman Whose Cause Was Lost
byGeorgia did not send a delegation to the first Continental Congress in 1774. The least populous colony of the thirteen British colonies in North…
John Joachim Zubly: PART 1, A Patriot Minister Whose Cause Was Lost
byMaurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), a French philosopher, once said that the definition of a traitor was “a patriot whose cause was lost.” In the time…
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The Articles of Confederation and Western Expansion
byThe Articles of Confederation described the first government of the new United States. As one may imagine from understanding the later debates on the…
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Weaponizing Impeachment: Justice Samuel Chase and President Thomas Jefferson’s Battle Over the Process
byThere was much discussion over the impeachment process during the Constitution’s ratifying debates. Federalists argued that the ability to impeach an individual gave disproportionate…
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The Frankford Advice: “Place Virginia at the Head of Everything”
bySince James Thomas Flexner’s 1974 Pulitzer recognition for his biography of George Washington, one of the axioms of the American founding is that the…
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Hylton v. U.S. and Alexander Hamilton’s Defense of Congressional Taxing Authority
byIn 1796 Daniel Hylton, a wealthy Virginian farmer, brought a suit before the United States Supreme Court arguing that a federal tax on carriages…
Johan Joachim Zubly: The Other Georgia Delegate
byWhen reading the excellent JAR article “The Dark and Heroic Histories of Georgia’s Signers,” I happened to recall another Georgia delegate to the Second…
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Samuel Chase’s Wild Ride
byMyth: “In 1776, when Maryland instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote against independence, Chase launched a successful campaign to persuade the…