Archive for William J. Watkins Jr.
Book Review: The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic by Lance Banning
Cornell University Press • 1995 • 543 pages • $35.00 Mr. Watkins is assistant editor of The Freeman. Historians have painted James Madison as a young centralizer and nationalist who later defected to the philosophy of states’ rights and strict construction of the Constitution. Madison was also accused of philosophical apostasy by his contemporaries. Alexander [...]
1Jan1997 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
Mr. Watkins is assistant editor of The Freeman. Historians have painted James Madison as a young centralizer and nationalist who later defected to the philosophy of states’ rights and strict construction of the Constitution. Madison was also accused of philosophical apostasy by his contemporaries. Alexander Hamilton, his collaborator on The Federalist, bitterly complained that after [...]
1Apr1996 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict
Mr. Watkins is assistant editor of The Freeman. Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was proof of the power of individuals. Kirk’s influence on the blossoming of contemporary American conservative thought cannot be measured. His 30 books on everything from economics to history will inspire their readers for years to come. Kirk’s final work, completed shortly before his [...]
1Mar1996 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Attack on Grassroots Liberty
Mr. Watkins is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Since the framing of the Constitution there has been a great debate surrounding the role of the federal judiciary. Jeffersonians from the agrarian South saw the federal courts as mechanisms for consolidation and thus dangerous to liberty, whereas the Northern commercial [...]
1Sep1995 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedPeace for Europe?
Mr. Watkins is an assistant editor for The Freeman. Since the end of the Second World War, there has been much discussion about European integration. What began as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951 developed into the European Union (EU) with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Unfortunately, the trend [...]
1Jul1995 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedJohn C. Calhoun: Champion of Sound Economics
Mr. Watkins, a recent graduate of Clemson University, is Assistant Editor of The Freeman. History teaches us that pernicious economic policies can destroy a powerful nation in a surprisingly short period of time. When a government uses tools such as currency expansion, debt, and high tariffs, eventually not even force will hold the nation together. [...]
1Feb1995 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 4 comments | Continued-
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