Category: political philosophy

• History in the Kitchen: The Declaration, Equality, & Mac and Cheese

  

  Today’s at History in the Kitchen we took a look at three documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments, and Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Similar to a lesson I teach in the classroom, I think it is vitally important to reiterate the ideals of the…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  July 3, 2020

  declaration of independence, history in the kitchen, jefferson, multicultural education, political philosophy, slavery

• Political Philosophy BEFORE the Revolution

  

  In reading text books over the years, I’ve noticed that many mention that the colonists sought the “British rights” to which they were entitled as a cause of the American Revolution. Among other things, taxation without representation angered them and they were incensed by the Crown denying them trial by jury. However, in these same…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  December 10, 2019

  american revolution, bill of rights, constitution, constitutional rights, declaration of independence, political philosophy

  american revolution, causes of american revolution, english civil war, glorious revolution, locke, magna carta, political philosophy, social contract