25
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District
, 508 U.S. 384 (1993).
26
Locke v. Davey
, 540 U.S. 712 (2004).
27
McCreary County v. ACLU
, 545 U.S. 844 (2005).
43
William J. Bennett,
The De-Valuing of America
(CO: Focus on the Family Pub, 1994), 255.
44
“Proposition 8 Cases,” California State Supreme Court, May 26, 2009; available at:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S168047.PDF
(accessed April 26, 2011), and Lisa Leff, “Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal,”
The Washington Times
, August 16, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/court-halts-calif-gaymarriages-pending-appeal/
(accessed April 26, 2011).
49
ParentalRights.org
, from footnote 2 to article,
http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp
. ?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={571D1CA7-1BA8-4E61-A55A-EE75EAD37DCE}: “This was not a reported decision and personal names are withheld in such cases as a matter of course. Our source for this information was Michael Farris, J.D., who advised the parents relative to this case.”
53
Charles Dexter Cleveland,
A Compendium of American Literature
(Philadelphia, 1859), 273â74.
CHAPTER FIVE
1
Corinne Maier,
Hello Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
, trans. David Watson (London: Orion, 2005).
3
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991).
5
Os Guinness,
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 40.
6
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
, 91.
7
From Ken Burns,
Brooklyn Bridge
, PBS Documentary, 1981.
8
George Washington, Letter to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784.
9
Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
(New York: Vintage Books, 1958), 10.
10
Frederick Jackson Turner,
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 31.
12
Ron Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton
(New York: Penguin, 2004).
14
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
, 99â100.
15
Robert Rector, Katherine Bradley, and Rachel Sheffield, “Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare: Uncovering the Full Cost of Means-Tested Welfare or Aid to the Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, Special Report #67, 2009.
16
Peter Ferrara,
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011).
17
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 80, “Income in 1970 of Families and Persons in the United States,” p. 26.
18
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 180, “Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States: 1991,” p. 7.
CHAPTER SIX
2
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991), 135.
4
Gordon Wood,
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
(New York: Penguin, 2004), 42, 49.
5
Charles Morris,
American Catholic
(New York: Times Books, 1997), 17â18.
6
Alexis de Tocquevile,
Democracy in America
, Part I, ch. 12.
7
Gordon Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
, 328â29.
8
Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
, para 75.
9
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, Part II, ch. 5.
11
Arthur Brooks,
Gross National Happiness
(New York: Basic Books, 2008), 190; and Brooks, “Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector,” in
Understanding America
, ed. James Wilson and Peter Schuck (PublicAffairs, 2008), 542. Brooks says that giving remains steady at between 1.5 and 2% of GDP annually. 2010 GDP exceeded $14 trillion.
12
Brooks,
Who Really Cares
(New York: Basic Books, 2006), 117â18.
14
Gordon Wood,
The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 120.
15
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963.
24
Charles Murray,
The Happiness of the American People
, Irving Kristol Lecture, AEI, March 2009; text of speech available at:
http://www.aei.org/speech/100023
(accessed April 25, 2011).
26
Howard S. Miller,
The Legal Foundations of American Philanthropy, 1776â1844
(Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961).