Refuse to Cooperate: How the Colonies Responded to the Boston Port Act
By: Mike Maharrey James Madison gave us a blueprint to stop “unwarrantable” government actions (or even “warrantable” actions that happen to be unpopular) in Federalist #46. Madison wrote that “a refusal to cooperate with ...
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Today in History: Parliament Passes the Tea Act
By: Mike Maharrey On April 27, 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. American colonists widely viewed this as another violation of their right to self-government and it led to ...
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The Midnight Ride of Jack Jouett that Saved Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry
By: Joe Wolverton, II Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of — Jack Jouett? Jouett’s mission, like that of his more famous fellow horseman, was to warn ...
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Patrick Henry: Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
By: Michael Boldin On March 23, 1775 – less than a month before Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard round the world,” Patrick Henry offered a set of resolutions before ...
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Thomas Paine, Passionate Pamphleteer for Liberty
By: Tenth Amendment As nobody before, Thomas Paine stirred ordinary people to defend their liberty. He wrote the three top-selling literary works of the eighteenth century, which inspired the American Revolution, ...
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The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis
By: Mike Maharrey At its core, the American Revolution was a constitutional crisis. The British system of government during the colonial era was a constitutional system, but not in the ...
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250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
By: Joe Wolverton, II You can still see the spot. If you take the Freedom Trail tour in Boston, a uniformed park ranger will let you stand right on the ...
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Today in History: Treaty of Paris Signed, Formally Ending War for Independence
By: Dave Benner Today in history, on September 3 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally ending the American War for Independence the next year. In 1781, a major ...
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