Charles Carroll

The Story of Each of Us

The chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by this knowledge to praise and thanks. What will you do?... Editor's Note: This address was...

The Last of the Romans: Charles Carroll of Carrollton

The last of the American signers of the Declaration of Independence to pass from this world, Charles Carroll of Carroll was also one of the most formally educated of the American founders. Living...

History of States’ Rights, 1774-1817

On the eve of the American Revolution, most American thinkers had embraced the idea of all rights (and, therefore, sovereignty) being inherited. Americans, as brothers and descendents of Englishmen, were entitled to the rights inherited from the English through...

A Warm Friend of Toleration: Charles Carroll and Religious Freedom

Designing and selfish men invented religious tests to exclude from posts of profit and trust their weaker or more conscientious fellow subjects, thus to secure to themselves all ye emoluments of Government. 

Charles Carroll, the Catholic Founder: An Interview with Dr. Bradley J. Birzer

by Carl Olson Dr. Bradley J. Birzer is the author of Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth. In this interview he talks with Carl...

Is There Ever A Line In The Sand?

My Theme for the evening: it seems as though no matter the transgression “conservatives” will not draw lines in the sand, we need to start “drawing lines in the sand.” Why the line is important...

Brad Birzer: American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll

An excellent lecture by Dr. Brad Birzer on "Charles Carroll: American Cicero." All patriots should know about Carroll's role in the establishment of the American Republic. Books mentioned in this lecture may be found in The Imaginative Conservative...

A Church of Their Own: Early American Catholics and Rome

John Carroll statue at Georgetown University Defeated in his plan to have the selection of American bishops conform to the republican mores of the United States, Carroll moved ahead with his efforts to Americanize the...