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To Write Is to Act
Algernon Sidney was executed in 1683 on the evidence of an unpublished manuscript. Jefferson called the book one of the elementary texts of public…
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The Judge Who Told a King No
Edward Coke dug up Magna Carta, faced down two kings, and decided a case in 1610 that describes the modern administrative state with uncomfortable…
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The Book in Every Law Office
Blackstone taught Americans what their rights were. He also taught them a doctrine of legislative supremacy they had to reject in order to be free.
Sep 10
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One Life to Lose
September 22, 1776: a twenty-one-year-old schoolteacher, a rope, and the sentence that outlived the empire that hanged him
Sep 8
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The Republic That Died
Cicero spent his life arguing that law stands above power. Then a man with an army disagreed.
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The Corset-Maker Who Started a Revolution
Thomas Paine had failed at everything. Then he wrote two pamphlets that changed the world.
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August 2026
The Night the Fog Came
Nine thousand men, one river, and the most consequential weather in American history
Aug 31
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The Road Nobody Watched
August 27, 1776: the largest battle of the Revolution, and the worst day of Washington’s life
Aug 25
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The Plot Against Washington
June 1776: a counterfeiting scheme, a royal governor on a ship, and the first man the Continental Army ever hanged
Aug 20
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The Oracle
Montesquieu wrote the blueprint. The Founders built from it. Then they improved on it.
Aug 17
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The Scotsman Who Taught the Father of the Constitution
How a small country’s intellectual revolution ended up written into American law
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The Book the Hangman Burned
Before there was a Constitution, there was a Scottish minister who said the law is king.
Aug 6
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