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...
The Struggle for American Independence: The Townshend Acts
In this episode, I cover the Townshend Acts, the crafty attempt by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend to enact taxes which would allay some of the colonists’ arguments against parliamentary taxation. Introduced here is John Dickinson, a lawyer from...
From the Stamp Act to the Tea Party: What the Old Revolutionaries Can Teach us for Today
This blog is featured in today’s Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly.ย Be one of themย โ andย Become a member hereย to support the TAC. Before today’s big update – a handful of important videos and a...