You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to America of three great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, ...

As for unalienable, the early drafts of the Declaration as Thomas Jefferson wrote it, called our rights “inalienable.” If you visit the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, the letters on the ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas ...