John Dickinson
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 Paineโs Common Sense in 1776, John Dickinson earned the name โPenman of the Revolutionโ 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...
Lessons for Liberty from John Dickinson and the Farmer Letters
Published in response to the hated Townshend Acts of 1767, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were more popular in the colonies than any other publication until Thomas Paineโs Common Sense in 1776. They asserted the colonial cause against imperial British overreach...