You Can’t Comply Your Way to Liberty
The American colonists demonstrated the right way to take on big government in their response to the Stamp Act.
The post You Can’t Comply Your Way to Liberty first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.A Duty to Resist
In the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, Jame Madison insisted that states were "in duty bound to interpose." But this wasn't a new idea. This spirit of resistance was an essential part of the American Revolution.
The post A Duty to Resist first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.The Stamp Act: A Constitutional Crisis
The Stamp Act was a major source of tension between the British and the colonists in the years leading the start of the War of Independence. The act was part of a broader constitutional crisis between the colonies and England. Echoes of that crisis have reverberated all the way through America’s history until today. The…
The Struggle for American Independence: The Stamp Act
Of all times in this struggle, it was in 1765 that patriot radicalism grew to its highest point.
Today in History: Parliament Repeals the Stamp Act
Today in 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, it also passed the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America was supreme and binding upon the colonies. It declared that Parliament had the authority “to make laws and…
From the Stamp Act to the Tea Party: What the Old Revolutionaries Can Teach us for Today
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.
John Hancock and Richard Henry Lee: Resisting “The Damned Act”
In October 1765, just two weeks before the Stamp Act was set to go into effect, Hancock sent a letter to his London agent, Johnathan Bernard, capturing the spirit of the time.
The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act
The victory against the Stamp Act represents one of the greatest practical applications of nullification in American history.
Podcast: The Stamp Act Crisis; Protest Done Right
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the American colonists’ protest against the Stamp Act and how their actions effectively nullified it. We’ve seen a lot of protests across America over the last few years, most recently waves of unrest in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. Protestors garnered…
Nullify Chapter 4: Samuel Adams and the Loyal Nine
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.