“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Just after the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776, a committee of Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin worked to design a great seal for the United States – and it included that powerful phrase on the reverse. While we don’t know who originally wrote it, we can trace its roots to Jonathan Mayhew’s widely read but mostly forgotten 1750 sermon on resisting tyranny. In it, he laid the moral and philosophical foundation for the Revolution – and in this episode, you’re going to learn all about it.
Path to Liberty: September 25, 2024
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John Adams – Letter to to Hezekiah Niles (13 Feb 1818)
John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (5 Apr 1818)
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Thomas Aquinas – Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1254–1256)
Sarah Morgan Smith, Ellen Deitz Tucker, David Tucker – Teaching American History
Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp Act (1765)
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)
Lysander Spooner – No Treason No VI (1870)
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