GHIST 225: US History Kevin R. Hardwick Spring 2012 LECTURE 01 Ronald Reagan's America.

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GHIST 225: US History Kevin R. Hardwick Spring 2012 LECTURE 01 Ronald Reagan's America

Some key concepts: Freedom Liberty Equality Opportunity Rights Work JMU Mission Statement: We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives. What does it mean to be an educated and enlightened citizen? Does citizenship have anything at all to do with living a productive and meaningful life?

Some key questions: What might threaten the American Republic? External threats Internal threats What are American statesmen afraid of? What bad thing might happen, if we don’t do something (or alternatively, if we do)? Some of the kinds of thing American statesmen have worried about: Tyranny Anarchy Lawlessness Disorder Abuse of power Corruption Immorality

Jonathan Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” 1630 “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”

Reagan--Two Big Threats to the United States 1.Communism 2.Overly large and intrusive Federal Government

Ronald Reagan, 1976 "We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. [When Americans declared independence from Great Britain.] We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth."

Ronald Reagan, speech to the House of Parliament in Great Britain, 1982: "At the same time we see totalitarian forces in the world who seek subversion and conflict around the globe to further their barbarous assault on the human spirit. What, then, is our course?... Must freedom wither in a quiet, deadening accommodation with totalitarian evil?“ "It is the Soviet Union that runs against the of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens."

Ronald Reagan, speech to the House of Parliament in Great Britain, 1982: "Here among you is the cradle of self-government, the Mother of Parliaments. Here is the enduring greatness of the British contribution to mankind, great civilized ideas: individual liberty, representative government, and rule of law under God."

The meaning of freedom, for Reagan: liberty for the individual government based firmly on the sovereignty of the people and a society in which public order was based in the authority of law, deriving from natural rights guaranteed by a Christian God