The Rebellion To Tyrants
The phrase “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God” is the essence of the sermon by Jonathan Mayhew in 1770 that sparked the American Revolution.
Michael Boldin, host of Tenth Amendment Center, says Mayhew’s sermon on resisting tyranny laid the moral, religious and philosophical foundation for much of the Revolution.
Boldin reports that shortly after the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776, a committee of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin worked to design a great seal for the United States, which originally included the powerful phrase on the obverse of the seal. Here’s more.
