Glenn Beck said something yesterday that I thought was profound but, at the same time it was just so simple. Just simply use the letters, documents, diaries, ect, first hand accounts, from that time. That would put an end to a lot of rewording, twisting and rewriting.
Sort of a Henry Commager Steele treatment of the Civil War. Unfortunately the pserson(s) who get to select the documents can bias the presentation so that doesn’t guarantee anything.
The same people who deny any mention of God from our elected politicians also try to argue that execution meets the standard of “cruel and unusual punishment” except the death penalty has been around since that phrase was coined. Life in prison was considered cruel and an unfair burden on taxpayers.
For the most part that is a great idea. The only problem I see with that, though, is Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists. The libs love to use that one to push church-state separation beyond what it really meant.
If Thomas Paine was included there could be problems with The Age of Reason and Agrarian Justice, too. Paine attacked religion in the first and advocated a universal welfare payment paid from property taxes in the second.
As I said, it’s a great idea for the most part, but we need to be careful what we wish for sometimes.