Celebrate the two-hundred fiftieth anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence by understanding the Declaration of Independence. "...he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power, does thereby put himself into a state of war with him...." - John Locke What was America supposed to be? What has it become, and why? "Easily the most important work on American History in the last hundred years." This crucial work analyzes the thinking behind the Founding of the United States compared against that of the leading Progressives. It demonstrates how the Progressive Era aimed to reduce all of American Civilization under perverse ideals of what society ought to be - and in so doing, how these initiatives murdered the essence of the American Republic. This is the true story of how America gave her freedom to madmen.