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The Education of John Jay - America’s indispensable diplomat (MUST READ AMERICAN HISTORY!)
City Journal ^ | Winter 2010 | Myron Magnet

Posted on 02/08/2010 12:37:57 AM PST by neverdem

Few could fathom why 55-year-old John Jay turned down President Adams’s nomination to rejoin the Supreme Court when his two terms as New York’s governor ended. What would lead him, in the hale prime of life, to retire instead to the plain yellow house he’d just built on a hilltop at the remote northern edge of Westchester County, two days’ ride from Manhattan, where visitors were few and the mail and newspapers came but once a week? After 27 years at the forge of the new nation’s founding, why would so lavishly talented a man give up his vital role on the world stage for the quiet life of a gentleman farmer?...

(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanrevolution; founders; foundingfathers; godsgravesglyphs; johnadams; johnjay
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To: Enchante

I was wondering how these men were educated. It’s wonderful learning about them, but who taught them and how?


41 posted on 02/09/2010 8:28:53 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: neverdem; Pharmboy

I am going to share this. Wonderful article.


42 posted on 02/11/2010 12:58:31 AM PST by AmericaUnite
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To: huldah1776
Many of them went to university, for instance, John Adams and John Hancock were Harvard graduates. Jefferson, William and Mary; Hamilton, Columbia; Madison, Princeton. Franklin and Washington never graduated college for varied reason. Men of wealth at that time also had extensive private libraries. Tutors were also common.

It was also not uncommon for the wealthier to send their children to England or France for education.

43 posted on 02/11/2010 5:13:46 AM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: 14themunny; 21stCenturion; 300magnum; A Strict Constructionist; abigail2; AdvisorB; Aggie Mama; ...

Federalist/Anti-Federalist ping. Old article, but a great read.


44 posted on 02/12/2015 9:58:03 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: wildbill
Columbia Ping needed

Now a bastion of Marxist thought with free speech blocked. How sad.

45 posted on 02/13/2015 3:34:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: huldah1776; Pharmboy

Back in their day there were fewer diversions in a life that constantly reminded them of the necessity of doing work. I believe it was Jefferson who wrote that if one did not properly plan and work throughout the year they would eat oatmeal all winter.


46 posted on 02/13/2015 3:44:07 AM PST by Loud Mime (Keep the Commandments; it's better than gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: Loud Mime

I actually do have oatmeal almost every morning! But must thank you for the reminder of our great founding fathers on a morning when I worry about 300 Marines surrounded by the desert but only 15 minutes from daesh. Where are those who are taught principle and honor?

Also, love the author. Was shocked that a journal called “City” would have such an editor, but haven’t researched the magazine (just finished and will eventually subscribe). Will be reading the author’s articles and posting one to it’s own thread.


47 posted on 02/13/2015 5:32:48 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Vaquero

I think Lew is the Freeper with a Columbia ping list. I don’t know how to find him.


48 posted on 02/13/2015 6:23:15 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: Pharmboy

Both Jay and Hamilton have buildings named after them in Columbia’s current location. In their day, Columbia was King’s College and located near Trinity Church in the financial district.


49 posted on 02/13/2015 6:55:34 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: Publius

Thank you for sharing. Excellent!


50 posted on 02/13/2015 10:26:08 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Publius

As always, thanks for the ping to these interesting articles.


51 posted on 02/13/2015 11:43:16 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Enchante

My elitist, moderate mother once said of the Founding Fathers, “They’re irrelevant in today’s world. They may as well be cartoon characters. They certainly weren’t gods.”

Sigh. True story. My mother is sadly uneducated about the FF and extremely intolerant of those who revere them, which includes me. She doesn’t believe in God either, ANY god. So there’s where the trouble begins.


52 posted on 02/13/2015 11:52:36 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: JDoutrider

For later...


53 posted on 02/13/2015 12:46:11 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: neverdem
John Jay, our first Chief Justice, was an American hero--and a Federalist.

So much for the neo-Confederate/Birchite claim that Jeffersonian strict constructionism is the "one true" interpretation of the US Constitution.

54 posted on 02/13/2015 12:55:49 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Jacquerie
At the Virginia constitutional ratifying convention, Patrick Henry was deeply suspicious of the northeastern states. Since they were dependent on ship borne trade and not agriculture, he feared that they would purposely shut down Mississippi River access for southern farm goods in order to ensure a permanently weak south.

Ironically, though he opposed the ratification of the Constitution he became a Federalist after it was adopted.

55 posted on 02/13/2015 1:03:03 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I've read that elsewhere, but am not really sure of it. PH declined appointments to Scotus and as SecState and kept James Madison out of the Senate. What subsequent public acts of PH could be described as federalist?
56 posted on 02/13/2015 1:22:33 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: neverdem; PGalt; marron

Bookmarked


57 posted on 02/13/2015 1:54:24 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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