American Revolution
Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?
The Declaration of Independence was not an effort to “find out new principles,” according to Thomas Jefferson. Instead, it was intended as “an expression of the American mind,” which was based on the principles of the greats like Locke, Cicero – and a guy named...The American Revolution was about much more than just having representatives to tax you. But that's pretty much all government-run schools teach. @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/pFR0UQvRyz
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A Revolution in Thought
If all you have to go on is your high school history class, you probably think the American Revolution was all about “taxation without representation.” That was part of it, but there was also a deeper revolution – as John Adams described it, a...
The Real Revolution: James Otis vs the Writs of Assistance
The revolution started years before the war commenced – a change in the views and sentiments of the people. And we can trace the beginning of the controversy between Great Britain and America to James Otis Jr, and his arguments against the Writs of Assistance in...
Totally Dissolved: The Lee Resolution and Independence
June 7, 1776: Following instructions from Virginia’s Fifth Revolutionary Convention, Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress to declare independence, along with a call to form foreign alliances, and a “plan for...