Program Manager, @ConSource. Alumnus, @UWMadison @UWHistoryDept.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2019
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News: A New Home for ConSource at Pembroke College, University of Oxford ow.ly/2dxN50BWzPk
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What happens after the House votes to impeach? How many votes in the Senate are needed to convict or acquit a president? Who presides over the trial, and are there any ground rules? Luckily, all the answers are right here: consource.org/document/unite…
Representing @ConSource and the Civics Renewal Network #civicsvillage in Austin at #NCSS2019! Come visit us and our wonderful partners. #renewcivics
Great stuff from my good friend Brady👇🏻
#OTD in 1787, the Constitutional Convention voted to adopt the No Religious Test Clause. Read more from Brady Earley about the history of this early religious liberty protection on our blog: blog.consource.org/post/1873…
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Kicking off the work week with Sebastian van Bastelaer on Les Habitants, The Quebec Act, #RevWar ideology and that damned absurd word liberty! allthingsliberty.com/2019/08…
In one digital transcription of the Constitution, some good old-fashioned “f” vs. “s” confusion led to the following reading of Art. 1: “They shall in all Cafes...be privileged from Arrest...”
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No one else was in the room where it happened! @HamiltonMusical @Lin_Manuel
On July 16, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act. A compromise that facilitated the passage of Alexander Hamilton's plan to assume state debts, it provided for a new federal district on the banks of the Potomac: ow.ly/s3tV50uVC42
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Oh to be in the room where it happened...
On July 16, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act. A compromise that facilitated the passage of Alexander Hamilton's plan to assume state debts, it provided for a new federal district on the banks of the Potomac: ow.ly/s3tV50uVC42
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Good article.
Both the Americans and the British sought to cultivate the favor of *les habitants* of Quebec - whose help could sustain an army indefinitely. As Sebastian van Bastelaer shows, failing to secure their endorsement could lead to ruin: allthingsliberty.com/2019/07…
Thrilled to see part of my undergrad thesis published in the @JourAmerRevo! Huge thanks to all involved. @UWHistoryDept
Both the Americans and the British sought to cultivate the favor of *les habitants* of Quebec - whose help could sustain an army indefinitely. As Sebastian van Bastelaer shows, failing to secure their endorsement could lead to ruin: allthingsliberty.com/2019/07…
Favorite thing I learned in researching this: Richard Henry Lee loathed British rule so much that in one letter to relatives he railed against that government’s “foolish and wicked” ways, only later remembering to inform recipients their brother had died.
On this date in 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed the Lee Resolution, an official vote on independence. For more on Lee's forgotten efforts, read this piece from @SVBConSource: blog.consource.org/post/1859…
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Read this essay from @SVBConSource on the burning of the Gaspee and the constitutional debates that inspired it: blog.consource.org/post/1854…
#OTD in 1772, angry colonists in Rhode Island burned the HMS Gaspee, considered by some to be the first naval event in the American Revolution.
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Check out the inaugural post of our new blog feature, The ConSource Daily Preamble: blog.consource.org/post/1851…
First day on the job @ConSource! Still representing @UWHistoryDept, though.
