Victor Nuovo
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Victor Nuovo: Tocqueville and governance
20th in a series “Democracy in America” is the title of a book that has become an American Classic. Its author was not an American, but a French…
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Victor Nuovo: America’s failed moral purist
19th in a series To begin with, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was a hypocrite. Although he could speak and write eloquently in favor of human liberty and equality from…
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Victor Nuovo: Rule by the People comes from Locke
18th in a series John Locke (1632–1704) was not an American, nor did he ever set foot on the American continent — although for a short time he…
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Victor Nuovo: Rule of law is a living tradition
17th in a series The Constitution of the United States is not engraved in stone. It can be changed by adding, deleting and revising. Article VI of the…
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Letter to the editor: Washington was not disparaged
In his letter to the Addison Independent (March 12) Tom Hughes accuses me of writing disparagingly of George Washington. This was not my intention. Indeed, I meant just…
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Victor Nuovo: America’s unique republic
16th in a series The United States of America is not a Democracy, it is a Democratic Republic, or simply, “a Republic.” On this point, all the founders…
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Victor Nuovo: Devotion to the new republic
15th in a series Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757–1804) has not enjoyed the celebrity of other founders of this nation, neither of Washington nor Adams nor Jefferson. His…
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Victor Nuovo: The choice for a Union
14th in a series The Constitutional Convention completed its work on Sept. 17, 1787, by adopting the Constitution that it had drafted and sending the document to the…
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Victor Nuovo: The Constitution’s 7 articles
13th in a series The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787. It consisted of delegates from 12 of the 13 states. Its first action was…
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Victor Nuovo: The U.S. Constitution: Why we have a duty to defend our fundamental law
12th in a series American Constitutionalism is a system of government founded on a fundamental law, which is not biased to the wishes and whims of a monarch,…
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Victor Nuovo: George Washington set the example
Eleventh in a series. George Washington (1732–99) was not an intellectual. He did not attend college. He did not read books; he was not a great orator, and…
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Victor Nuovo: The man who would not be king
Tenth in a series. There is a tale told about George Washington — I may have first heard it in school — that shortly after Lord Cornwallis surrendered…
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Victor Nuovo: James Fenimore Cooper’s America
Ninth in a series. James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was an American writer who chronicled rural life from the Revolution through the first half of the 19th century. I…
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Victor Nuovo: Plato and the rule of law
Eighth in a series. Not long after he finished writing “The Republic” Plato, changed his mind — or so it seems. This happens often among philosophers, but when…
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Victor Nuovo: More enlightenment from Plato’s ‘Republic’
Seventh in a series. This essay continues my Platonic digression on the theme of a moral universe. A moral universe is one in which Good is as basic…
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Letter to the editor: ‘A Christmas Carol’ updated for our time
I would like to report a midwinter night’s dream: Last night, in the middle of the night, I dreamed about Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” I dreamed that Donald Trump…