Today in history, John Laurens, who was a Revolutionary War hero and a close confidante of George Washington, was killed in the Battle of the Combahee River. He was also a southerner far ahead of his time who came up with a scheme to offer some slaves the hope of freedom.
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The Continental Congress officially responded to the proclamation in December 1775, asserting that they had never been disloyal to the King, but that Parliament didn't have a legitimate claim to sovereignty over them because they were represented by their own democratically elected legislative bodies. The Congress also declared that the colonies would continue to resist the Parliament's violations of the British Constitution.
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Randolph was one of three members of the Philadelphia Convention who stayed until the end but refused to sign the Constitution. He later reversed his position and became an important advocate for ratification during the Virginia ratifying convention.
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To be sure, the history of gun regulations is complex, so I don't mean to be definitive. But I'm not seeing conclusive evidence that public carry was widely prohibited (as opposed to being regulated) in the relevant period. And without that evidence, the majority's conclusion seems sound.
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Huntington was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He went on to serve as President of the Continental Congress from 1779-1781 and President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781. In his home state of Connecticut, he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court and elected governor in 1786, an office he held until his death in 1796.
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Benjamin Franklin, along with George Bryan and James Cannon were the principal authors of the new constitution, but others contributed, including George Clymer, Timothy Matlack, and possibly even Thomas Paine.
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the Vermont constitution ended adult slavery in the state, declaring that "all persons are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."
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While the Orangetown Resolutions only represented a small number of people in a single New York County, they succinctly articulated and cemented the revolutionary principles of constitutional fidelity, restraint of government power, and resistance to usurpation.
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Government schools never teach this stuff. But the American Revolution - and the War for Independence - were about much more than “taxation without representation.” The Revolution was about unlimited, arbitrary power - complete and total supremacy over the colonies. And the battles started over a British gun control program.
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On June 28, 1776, American forces won their first significant battle of the War for Independence when South Carolina troops defeated a British naval force.
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