{"id":9126,"date":"2021-01-12T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/14\/the-founders-guide-to-knock-down-drag-out-fighting\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:37:28","slug":"the-founders-guide-to-knock-down-drag-out-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-founders-guide-to-knock-down-drag-out-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founders\u2019 guide to \u2018Knock Down, Drag Out\u2019 fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48593\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48593\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48593 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/aaron-zubia-250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"351\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/351;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-48593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Alexander Zubia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reflecting on the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters, Aaron Alexander Zubia writes an opinion piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-founders-guide-to-knock-down-drag-out-fighting-11610133634?st=342bgzubmnnc0e3&amp;reflink=article_email_share\"><strong>The Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a>. Zubia, a postdoctoral fellow with the Tocqueville Program in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, says we can learn much from our Founding Fathers who in 1787-1788 were embroiled in heated debates over the ratification of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>To manage passions during ratification, Zubia writes, &#8220;[The Federalists] opted not to suppress passions but to channel them toward common leaders (like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin) and a common cause (ratification).&#8221; Fast-forward to present day, the statement begs a question or two &#8211; &#8220;Who are our common leaders today? Who demands enough respect and admiration to quell the ordinary diversity of opinions?&#8221; Zubia asks.<\/p>\n<p>Zubia holds a master&#8217;s and doctorate in political science from Columbia University, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a bachelor&#8217;s in marketing from the University of Texas at El Paso. His work has appeared in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has also written for National Review Online, Washington Examiner, and Public Discourse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters, Aaron Alexander Zubia writes an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. Zubia, a postdoctoral fellow with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}