# Pursue Truth. Defend Liberty

> Historical inquiry into early American ideals and debates.


## Posts

- [Religious Liberty as a Founding Debate](https://speakingone2one.org/religious-liberty-as-a-founding-debate/): Religious freedom did not arrive as a settled American consensus. Virginia’s campaign against religious assessments shows how deeply the meaning of liberty was argued over.
- [Self-Government After Independence](https://speakingone2one.org/self-government-after-independence/): Winning independence did not settle how a republic should govern itself. The arguments over the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution reveal how uncertain—and contested—that task was.
- [The Declaration’s Promise of Equal Rights](https://speakingone2one.org/the-declarations-promise-of-equal-rights/): In 1776, independence needed more than a break with Britain: it needed a reason. The Declaration offered one in language that reached beyond the people who first claimed it.

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