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Daily Briefing: AMERICA’S FOUNDERS ENSHRINED EQUALITY AT THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN IDEA

https://isranet.org/analysis/painting-the-tension-at-americas-founding-moment/

https://isranet.org/analysis/fears-of-a-setting-sun-review-factions-at-americas-founding/

https://isranet.org/analysis/salute-the-american-revolutions-enduring-legacy/

https://isranet.org/analysis/where-did-the-founders-get-their-ideas-americas-machiavellian-moment-and-the-origins-of-the-atlantic-republican-tradition/

For Further Reference:

Did America Have a Christian Founding?:  Mark David Hall, The Heritage Foundation, June 7, 2020 — The role of religion in the American republic has been a source of controversy since the nation’s inception. 

Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution:   Gordon S. Wood:  Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 66; Issue 1, April 1990 — Republicanism was the ideology of the American Revolution, and as such it became the source of much of what we Americans still believe, the source of many of our noblest ideals and most persistent values. 

The Jew Who Saved the American Revolution- A July 4th Lesson:  Rabbi Menachem Levine, Linkedin, July 2, 2020 Haym Salomon was born in Leszno (Lissa), Poland, in 1740 to a family descended from Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had immigrated to Poland following the Spanish Inquisition and Expulsion.

Did America Have a Christian Founding?:  Mark David Hall, The Heritage Foundation, June 7, 2020 – The role of religion in the American republic has been a source of controversy since the nation’s inception.

Jewish Stories from the Revolutionary War:  From the Diary of Benjamin Sheftall, David Bruce Smith Publications, — When the Revolutionary War began in April of 1775, the population of Jews in America was barely countable. They were two thousand out of two million, but they sprang into upholding the Patriot position:

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