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The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself In November 1620, the Mayflower dropped anchor far outside the only patent its passengers held. Before anyone went ashore, forty-one men promised to make just and equal laws and to obey them. The paper named no off…

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The Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Can End Yemen's War? On Saturday a Houthi missile struck Riyadh's airport and killed thirteen people, one of them an American. In Yemen, tribal mediators have spent the whole war bringing the dead home to their families before anyone speaks of terms. Episode 16B …
Did the Iroquois Shape the Constitution? The Great Law of Peace In 1744 an Onondaga speaker told three English colonies to unite as his forefathers had. Franklin printed the speech. When the colonists designed a union, they did not copy it. This is Episode 16 of Self-Evident: The Road to 1776, an…
Who Decides When the Emergency Ends? Peter McPhee on the French Revolution In 1793, France gave sweeping emergency powers to a few committees. Historian Peter McPhee explains why, and why ending them became a deadly question. This is the interview episode for Week 15 of Self-Evident: The Road to …
Automatic Draft Registration (Dec. 2026) and the History of the American Draft This December, Selective Service registration becomes automatic. The duty to sign up moves from the man to the government, and the agency that has to run it withdrew its implementing rules in July without ever publishing…
Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Ep. 15 Voltaire vs. Rousseau: Toleration, Consent & the General Will In 1762 a Protestant cloth merchant was broken on the wheel in Toulouse for a murder that never happened. Voltaire spent three years getting the verdict overturned, and the case became the occa…
What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded. A Contemporary Bonus Episode to the series: Parties, Ideologies, and Systems. A party-line vote is a vote for a party, and the one formal statement a party adopts of what it stands for is its convention platform. Almost nobody re…
Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 14i Prosecutor One Day, Judge the Next: Inside America's In-House Courts | Jared McClain Montesquieu wrote that there is no liberty if the power of judging is joined to the power of carrying out the law. Jared McClain, a senior attorney at the Institute fo…
Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 14B The House Didn’t Vote No. It Just Went Home. On September 15, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie read eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on the House floor and gave notice of them as a question of the privileges of the House …
Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers: The Spirit of the Laws Explained In 1748, a retired French magistrate published The Spirit of the Laws anonymously. Within three years, the Church banned it; within forty, Americans on both sides of the constitutional ratification fight relied on it to make…
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