The American Minervan

Tag: Republicanism

  • Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century

    Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century

    “Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and duty, and its vision of society. Republicanism as a set of values and a form of life was much too pervasive, comprehensive, and involved with being liberal and enlightened to be seen as subversive or…

  • Zisi: Virtue and Accountable Actions | Doctrine of the Mean

    Zisi: Virtue and Accountable Actions | Doctrine of the Mean

    Zisi speaks on being accountable for our actions, for abandoning the path of virtue, and causing suffering under heavens watch. “Some men who have not complied with virtue will yet not acknowledge their offences, and when Heaven has by evident tokens charged them to correct their conduct, they still say, “What are these things to…

  • Illuminati Pop Lies vs. Secret Society Truth with Josef Wages

    Illuminati Pop Lies vs. Secret Society Truth with Josef Wages

    JOHANN ADAM WEISHAUPT: FROM SENSATIONALIST AND SLANDEROUS MYTHS TO DOCUMENTED FACTS “It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fated by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — ADAM WEISHAUPT…

  • The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”

    “The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…

  • Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal

    Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal

    MASONIC DUTIES “Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of STRENGTH a man has in him, will lie written in the WORK he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict…