History
This Wasn’t a Request. It Was a Refusal.
The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to respond to the hated Coercive Acts – Parliamentโs 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...
The Revolution Didn’t Begin with a Shot. It Began with a Line in the Sand.
Life, liberty, and property werenโt just theories – they were the foundation of the American Revolution. John Locke wrote them, the Declaration adopted them, but Samuel Adams turned them into action. In 1772, he drafted an incredibly important, but almost...
America Didn’t Escape the Crown. We Rebuilt the Throne.
Same system. Different flag. The Revolutionaries Declared Independence in 1776 – and put their lives on the line to keep it. Yet today, the system we live under is virtually the same – in practice as the British system they fought a long war to secede from...
Virgil and the Constitution
When the Founders created the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they borrowed all three of its sayings from poems attributable to the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE):ย E pluribus unumย (โout of many, oneโ),ย Novus ordo seclorumย (โa new order of the agesโ) andย Annuit...