Brownson's Occasional Blog
Orestes Brownson, the most profound American thinker of the 19th Century, argued that the cause of our Civil War was two - equally erroneous - interpretations of the U.S. Constitution. His analysis is crucial today to resolve our current divisions.
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The Loyal People
After reading my recent piece in Public Discourse, The American Pope and the American Constitution, a friend questioned me about a quote from Orestes Brownson:
[T]he great body of the people in the non-slaveholding States, wedded to Amer...
Reconstruction Revisited Again
As I mentioned in a post last month, Brownson immediately objected to the plan for reconstruction proposed by Lincoln in December, 1862. Before that plan was put into legislative form, Brownson objected once more in The American Republic. H...
A Brownson Memorium
American Catholic Quarterly Review began publication in January 1876, very probably to continue Brownson’s Quarterly Review which closed with its Q4, 1875 issue due to Brownson’s deteriorating health. The editors of ACQR were three Catholic...
What's in a Title?
Yesterday I was published in Angelus, the publication of the Los Angeles diocese.
The editor’s last minute change to the title skews my point. It was not my intention to emphasize America’s Catholic roots but to point to its Providential r...
Reconstruction Revisited
Orestes Brownson had profound reservations about the Fourteenth Amendment, so whenever I notice discussion of this controversial addition to our Constitution, I tuned in.
Recently, David Upham, a professor at St. Thomas University College...
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What Aquinas was to Aristotle, Orestes Brownson is to our American founding. The most profound American thinker of the 19th Century, Brownson's interpretations of the U.S. Constitution is crucial today to resolve our current divisions.
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