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3 thoughts on “Origins Of American Revolution”

1. Tim Shey on February 2, 2024 at 8:51 am said:

   A History Lesson: Colonel Isaac Barre
   https://hitchhikeamerica.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/a-history-lesson/

   A Revolutionary People at War
   https://tim-shey.blogspot.com/2010/07/revolutionary-people-at-war.html

   Quotes from Thomas Jefferson
   https://tim-shey.blogspot.com/2010/05/quotes-from-thomas-jefferson.html

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2. Tim Shey on February 2, 2024 at 12:08 pm said:

   American War for Independence (1775-1783)

   “The Americans who protested against British encroachments on colonial liberties wanted to preserve their traditional rights. They were not revolutionaries seeking the radical restructuring of society… They used the word ‘innovation’ pejoratively… ‘no freeman should be subject to any tax to which he has not given his own consent’ [-John Adams]… From the American point of view, such taxation without consent was an intolerable novelty… They protested that their ancient chartered rights were being violated… The Americans defended their traditional rights. The French revolutionaries despised French traditions and sought to make everything anew: new governing structures, new provincial boundaries, a new ‘religion,’ a new calendar—and the guillotine awaited those who objected…

   “In a certain sense, there was no American Revolution at all. There was, instead, an American War for Independence in which Americans threw off British authority in order to retain their liberties and self-government. In the 1760s, the colonies had, for the most part, been left alone in their internal affairs… [The] colonists did not seek the total transformation of society that we associate with other revolutions, such as the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution. They simply wished to go on enjoying self-rule when it came to their internal matters and living as they always had for so many decades before British encroachments began. The American ‘revolutionaries’ were conservative, in the very best sense of that word…

   “When modern-day liberals justify extremely broad readings of the Constitution on the grounds that we need a ‘living, breathing Constitution’ that ‘changes with the times’, they are actually recommending the very system the colonists sought to escape. The British constitution was very flexible indeed — too flexible for the colonists, who were inflexibly committed to upholding their traditional rights. The ‘living, breathing’ British constitution was no safeguard of American liberties.”

   —The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
   from Chapter 2: “America’s Conservative Revolution”
   by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D.

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3. Tim Shey on February 2, 2024 at 12:20 pm said:

   In this video, it said that by 1775 there were 38 different newspapers voicing opposition to the English Crown.

   This reminds me of what has been happening in the United States the past 20 or more years. Look at all of the Christian Patriot blogs in this country. People are sick of the lies of the mainstream media. With the rise in blogs, videos (Bit Chute, Rumble) and social media, the mainstream media is being destroyed.

   Death by a thousand blogs.

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