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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

First Things authors reflect on patriotism and the historical oddity that was American independence.

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JULY 2010 ● BY JOE CARTER

THE PATRIOT'S ASTERISK ([link removed]) [link removed] and principle were one and the same. ([link removed])

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JULY 2013 ● BY BRANDON WATSON

SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ([link removed])

Alleged self-evident truths are worthless without the meaning of the terms.

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OCTOBER 2011 ● BY MATTHEW J. FRANCK

HOW TO MISUNDERSTAND YOUR OWN COUNTRY ([link removed])

Of course the Declaration of Independence was illegal. That was the whole point.

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