Revealed: The Italian Hand In America's Founding!

Before America had a Constitution, it needed words, ideas, and a vision of what a republic could look like. 

These Italians gave it all three.

Filippo Mazzei lived next door to Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, and the two men spent years exchanging ideas about liberty and government. Mazzei's own writing, "all men are by nature equally free and independent," is widely credited as the inspiration behind Jefferson's "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.

While Mazzei gave the founders their words, Gaetano Filangieri gave them a framework. His major work, "The Science of Legislation," reached Benjamin Franklin directly, and his ideas on law and government shaped political thought during the founding era.

Andrea Palladio never set foot in America. He lived two centuries before the Revolution. But his classical architectural style became the visual language of the young republic. Jefferson studied his work closely, and that influence can still be seen in Monticello, the University of Virginia, and the federal buildings that define American government today.

Words, ideas, and vision. Italians and Italian Americans helped shape this nation from its very first chapter.

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is a proud Supporting Partner of America250 honoring the generations of Italians and Italian Americans who have shaped our nation.

An Important Address From NJ's Tom Kean, Jr.

A Star-Studded Event For EVERYBODY!

 

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'!

Yeah, We Discovered, LOVE and Treasure America!

Celebrate 250 years of America with the Italians who discovered it.

Cristoforo Colombo was born in Genoa in 1451. His 1492 voyage across the Atlantic opened sustained contact between Europe and the Americas and changed the course of human history forever.

Giovanni Caboto called Venice home. Sailing under the English flag in 1497, he reached the shores of North America and laid the groundwork for English colonization of the continent we now call home.

Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence in 1454. His voyages to the New World made him the first to recognize that the lands Columbus had reached were not Asia but an entirely new continent. The world named it after him.

Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in Tuscany around 1485. In 1524 he mapped the Atlantic coastline of North America and sailed into the harbor that would one day become New York, the gateway to the American dream for millions.

NIAF is a proud Supporting Partner of America250, honoring the Italian explorers whose curiosity, courage, and vision made the American story possible.

The Trenton Dems Have EMACIATED Tax Relief!

New Jersey DemocRATS CUT senior property tax relief in the about-to-be-adopted state budget:

ANCHOR property tax relief program : cut from $2.4B → $2.2B Stay NJ property tax relief program: cut from $1.2B → $742M, income cap slashed Veterans Property Tax Deduction: down $700K Independent college funding: cut nearly in half However, they ADDED: $611M in pork for insiders. Seniors got cut. Insiders got Christmas in July.

Indeed! This Is ENTIRELY Believable!

 

How Tax 'N Spend Dems Destroy New Jersey!

Since Chris Christie left office NJ spending is: UP $26 billion — a 75% increase NJ taxes: UP $23 billion — a 64% increase Now, Democrats are poised to pass a budget with $765M more in tax increases and $1.9B more in spending year-over-year. 

Same story. Bigger numbers. Every year. 

Yes, This Is The Man Who Inspired 'Rocky'

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Hey, NJ: Know Your Revolutionary War History!

On this day, June 28 1778, Molly Pitcher, the legendary heroine of the Battle of Monmouth NJ famously took her fallen husband's place firing his cannon. Historians identify her as Mary Ludwig Hays, who traveled with her husband, William, a gunner in the 4th Continental Artillery.