Posted on 07/01/2002 7:08:38 AM PDT by Boonie Rat
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
America's founders developed ideas on liberty that remain with us today.
The "Glorious Cause," George Washington called the American Revolution. He and the other founders fought not only for independence from Great Britain, but for a new conception of freedom, of the individual person as someone with intrinsic rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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Richard F.
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