John Dickinson
Compliance is Violence: Dickinson and Spooner on the Path to Liberty
John Dickinson and Lysander Spooner were separated by nearly a century in life, and possibly even more in their political goals. But they both understood what we need to understand more today. Compliance establishes the “detestable precedent.” It ensures the...
Top-5 Tools for Total Tyranny
The structure and power for a totalitarian nightmare is all around us – overcriminalization, overregulation, surveillance, and so much more, including the ability to fund all their unconstitutional programs. Path to Liberty: August 16, 2021...
Liberty is the Foundation: Timeless Wisdom from the “Penman of the Revolution”
Author of the most widely-read papers on American liberty up until publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense in 1776, John Dickinson earned the name “Penman of the Revolution” for his opposition to the hated Townshend Acts of 1767. From natural rights, to precedent...
Otis, Adams, Dickinson: The Massachusetts Circular Letter
After John Dickinson urged them to take action in response to the Townshend Acts of 1767, James Otis, Jr. and Samuel Adams drafted the Massachusetts Circular Letter, which was sent to the other colonies – and London – on Feb 11, 1768. What transpired...