Our Duty: Enforce the Constitution
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT LIKES IT OR NOT John Dickinson understood what schools don’t teach – the people are the ones to enforce their own constitution. “IT IS THEIR DUTY TO WATCH, AND THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE CARE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED; or in...
The Original Shutdown Wasn’t a Political Game. It Was Revolution.
On October 20th, 1774, the First Continental Congress passed the Continental Association, a coordinated economic shutdown in response to relentless attacks by the British Empire, including the hated Coercive Acts. It was a four pronged strategy that included a...
This Wasn’t a Request. It Was a Refusal.
The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to respond to the hated Coercive Acts – Parliament’s brutal punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They had a decision: submit to tyranny, or resist. Their answer was the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental...