Born Sept. 27, 1722 - some “experts” would have you believe his political career “peaked” in 1776, and mostly ended there. But more important were his ideas, which not only helped influence an entire generation to resist the empire, but can live on today as well - and help drive resistance to another.
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The doctrine of “passive obedience and non-resistance” - was one the founders and old revolutionaries vehemently rejected as destructive to liberty. Yet, here we are today...is it based on fear, or maybe just old habits?
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The Declaration of Independence was not an effort to “find out new principles,” according to Thomas Jefferson. Instead, it was intended as “an expression of the American mind,” which was based on the principles of the greats like Locke, Cicero - and a guy named Algernon Sidney - whose book was owned by Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin and many others.
The post Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.A lot of people believe that the Constitution means what the supreme court tells us it means, until it changes its mind, of course.
Until at least the 1960s or so, the "progressive school" of history suggested that we totally ignore the views and works of old revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and James Otis.
After Francis Rotch’s request that the ships be allowed to return to England without unloading their cargo or paying the tax is denied, Samuel Adams announces “This meeting can do nothing more to save our country!”
The American Revolution didn’t start in Philadelphia, or at Lexington and Concord. Instead, as John Adams put it, the Revolution started on February 24, 1761, when James Otis, Jr., rose in Boston’s Massachusetts Town House to defend American liberty. He gave a 5 HOUR speech in opposition to the “Writs of Assistance.” These were general warrants…
If you believe, like I do, that taxation is theft, you might be interested in what Samuel Adams had to say on the subject.
The victory against the Stamp Act represents one of the greatest practical applications of nullification in American history.
Once word of Patrick Henry and the Virginia Resolves spread to Boston, Samuel Adams and the Loyal Nine started taking active steps to nullify the Stamp Act.