REFUSE TO COMPLY: How the Stamp Act Was Nullified
Refuse to comply. Thatโs exactly what the people did to bring down the Stamp Act once it went into effect on November 1, 1765. Weโve all heard about the fiery protests and the bold resistance, but there was so much more to the story. On this episode, learn their...
NULLIFY THEM: Jefferson’s Rightful Remedy from the American Revolution
โA nullification of the act is THE rightful remedy.โ Thatโs how Thomas Jefferson said we should respond to any federal act that goes beyond the limits of the Constitution. But hereโs the thing – Jefferson wasnโt inventing something new in 1798. He was reminding...
John Dickinson: A “Great Worthy of the Revolution”
A name almost totally forgotten today, John Dickinson was famous – known as โThe Penman of the American Revolution.โ A true Lockean in support of liberty, life and property – he helped lead the opposition to the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, the...