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 โplan for...
Those Other Declarations of Independence
While most people are pretty familiar with July 4th, there were actually dozens of other โdeclarationsโ and resolutions in support of independence in the months leading up to that date. They came from towns, committees, militias, colonial assemblies and more. Path to...
Natural Rights: Liberty Doesn’t Need a Government Permission Slip
Even though many people credit Thomas Jefferson for the natural rights principles in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson himself pointed out that he didnโt invent those ideas. Instead, he wrote, he had adopted the “harmonizing sentiments of the...