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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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A place intended to share thoughts and ideas in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment when scientific reasoning was applied to human nature, society, and religion with emphasis placed upon liberty and democracy.
The Virginia State Capitol, modeled by Thomas Jefferson after the Maison Carrée at Nîmes, France.
Recommended Reading:
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- George Mason: Father of the Bill of Rights by C.R. Heymsfeld and J.W. Lewis
- Governing American States & Communities: Constraints and Opportunities by Ann H. Elder and George C. Kiser
- James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski
- Jefferson and The Rights of Man by Dumas Malone
- Listen, Liberal or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank
- The Brains Trust by R.G. Tugwell
- The Citizen's Guide To Lobbying Congress by Donald E. deKieffer
- The Federalist Era 1789-1801 by John C. Miller
- The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson by Garrett Ward Sheldon
- Thomas Jefferson on Democracy, edited by S.K. Padover
- Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson
The Marquis de LaFayette
