Vindicating the Founders: An online resource for the book by Thomas G. West

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Information on seminars and on-line lectures for American history teachers sponsored by the Ashbrook Center.
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Vindicating the Founders is a defense of the Founders' views and actions on slavery, women's rights, property rights, voting rights, and other controversial issues.

The main purpose of this site is to make available to the public an extensive collection of original historical documents on the themes of this book. These documents provide evidence from original sources in support of the book's arguments.

Most of the historical documents are quite short. Some are appropriate for in-class teacher handouts. All can be read quickly by students.

This site also publishes other useful information about the book, such as the table of contents, book reviews and other discussions of the book, and information on the author.

"Every human good we enjoy today is a legacy from what the Founders wrought and Lincoln preserved. Yet today that legacy has been thrust aside and debased, which something called 'political correctness'—in which wisdom is mocked and virtue scorned—has been thrust into its place. It will take a long and hard struggle to reclaim oour inheritance from the forces of evil, but Thomas West's book is a magnificent beginning."
—Harry V. Jaffa

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Dr. Thomas G. West, a Director and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, is Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas, where he has taught since 1974.

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- Founding Principles

- Chapter 1: Slavery

- Chapter 2: Property Rights

- Chapter 3: Women and the Right to Vote

- Chapter 4: Women and the Family

- Chapter 5: Was the Founding Undemocratic? The Property Requirement for Voting

- Chapter 6: Poverty and Welfare

- Chapter 7: Immigration and the Moral Conditions of Citizenship

- Afterword: Liberals and Conservatives Abandon the Principles of the Founding
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