The 3 Pillars Of The American Idea | ZeroHedge
Authored by Robert Curry via RealClearHistory,
Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding.
Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident truths, and free market economics.
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, (more…)