During a speech before the second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American colonies by declaring, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Following the signing of the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Patrick Henry was appointed governor of Virginia by the Continental Congress.
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The first major American opposition to British policy came in 1765 after Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. Under the banner of “no taxation without representation,” colonists convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the tax. With its enactment on November 1, 1765, most colonists called for a boycott of British goods and some organized attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors. After months of protest, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1765.
Most colonists quietly accepted British rule until Parliament’s enactment of the Tea Act in 1773, which granted the East India Company a monopoly on the American tea trade. Viewed as another example of taxation without representation, militant Patriots in Massachusetts organized the “Boston Tea Party,” which saw British tea valued at some 10,000 pounds dumped into Boston harbor. Parliament, outraged by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in the following year. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British.
With the other colonies watching intently, Massachusetts led the resistance to the British, forming a shadow revolutionary government and establishing militias to resist the increasing British military presence across the colony. In April 1775, Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, ordered British troops to march to Concord, Massachusetts, where a Patriot arsenal was known to be located. On April 19, 1775, the British regulars encountered a group of American militiamen at Lexington, and the first volleys of the American Revolutionary War were fired.
He was a giant in his times. He had all the stature of Madison, Jefferson, Monroe et, al. But he didn’t sign on to the constitution because he saw it was fatally flawed. And he didn’t have long to wait for proof as Adams passed the Alien and Sedition act before the ink was dry. Lincoln proved the foundational concept of consent of the governed a cruel and bloody farce. Now it’s barely a speed bump and talk of fidelity to the constitution is only truly held dear by fools and those who benefit from the lie. Ask Clapper what he thinks of the 4th amendment. Ask that power drunk, self aggrandizing asshole judge from Hawaii about the 3rd. Ask Breyer what he thinks of the 2nd and ask any college puke what they think about the 1st. The Articles of Confederation would have done a far better job dispersing political power-that most dangerous of human failings.
and you just succinctly stated why we should never have a constitutional convention-they convened to fix the articles of confederation but left with a new constitution–
why would it be different this time?
Absolutely CC! You are spot on. Henry, George Mason and the other Anti-federalists (who were actually pro federalism but anti the Federalist Party) were prescient with their view that the Constitution would give too much power to the executive branch and not enough to the States. If it weren’t for the addition of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution never would have been ratified. Even with the addition, neither Henry or Mason signed the document. Their biggest complaint was that there wasn’t enough checks in place to keep the President from becoming a despot or just another Monarch. I think they may have been on to something. Adams started pushing the envelope with his Alien and Sedition Act. Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, Boy Bush and Obama (to name but a few) have stretched the envelope to its limit.
R E Lee in a letter to Lord Acton hits the nail on the head:
“The consolidation of the States into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it”.
I’d say that was prescient and now, unfortunately, borne out in fact.
The Revolution installed King George as the “Arch-Treasurer”, of what is now these, “Once-United”, States.
Of course, the end result of American Revolution has been obfuscated intentionally by those that have conspired to own the Monopoly Board since the game was first invented. It has also helped their playmates and pets, the bankers. American Law is based on “English Common Law” and international trade is based on the “Uniform Commercial Code”, another English Contrivance that dictates behaviors as set, in precedence, through English Maritime Law.
You may disagree: so be it. Good Luck in “Court” where, nowadays, the English language is beggared like a blown whore to extortion of highest bidder… make sure you are pre-diagnosed as suffering “Affluenza”, or you need not apply.
The Revolution enshrined the Constitution and The Bill of Rights. The banks have spent the past century despoiling each, in equal measure, while central banking misinformation renders service to the Corruption and nothing else. These … er … ehem … “people?”, really bring nothing to the table, while in fact, their debt extortion is fashioned out-of-thin-air.
So… King George is our “Arch-Treasurer” and 1200 Trillions in intentionally-mislabeled, “Federal Reserve notes, bills and bonds”, currently owed to Securities and Insurance Fraud is our present plight… except the loudest mouths spend their days describing some 20 Trillion, as “Deficit”.
The intentional misdirection of the “Deficit” of 20 Trillion is merely the “interest” on the US credit card. The “Principal” has not been paid down since an American President with a scar from a British saber, on his face, launched the second national bank into oblivion, while its master, Nicholas Biddle, died a pauper in debtor’s prison.
If one were to ascertain a certain “Gold Standard” for Presidential Performance, as regards the Criminal, English-based, Central Banking Cartel, Andrew Jackson takes that description to a molecular level…
Even as Abe Lincoln, once he became aware the European Central Bankers were funding the Confederacy, abandoned “Gold”, because any fool that would use “Gold” as commodity to back paper currency, can plainly see the European Crooks cornered that market centuries ago…
Of course, once Lincoln was removed as obstacle (“Greenback Dollars”, that presently exist as a viable alternative to fraudulent, now hyper-inflationary-hence-“Insolvent”, intentionally-mislabeled, “Federal Reserve notes, bills and bonds” -1200 TRILLIONS OWED TO CRIMINAL BANKING FRAUDS) the “Arch-Treasury” and their bought politicians, wasted no time in a return the Monopoly Board.
This why the US is now a “Corporate Indenture” to the City Of London. The District of Columbia, is the DC – direct current, to the international central banking SCAM.
We The People have squandered our birthright and We are presently allowing an “Insolvent-according-to their-own-rules”, minority elite to lord over US despite the fact they have ruined their phony bank and NOT, the American People…
Article One, Section Eight is unambiguous in its language: “Congress shall have the power … To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the SECURITIES and current coin of the United States”.
What are We The People waiting for? And why are We The People listening to any central banking interference form ANY sources, whatsoever?
Patrick Henry understood what is at stake and We The People have made the sacrifices and trail he blazed, among others, a trite and somewhat scorned, opportunity to sell hot dogs and hamburgers.
This is our time. We The People don’t owe the European parasites so much as a polite instruction, they must sit still while their betters are talking. In the past, they have robbed US blind at the threat of invasion and violence. The shoe is now, on the other foot and We will take what We please, once the fools in this country are driven to the silence and oblivion, where they belong.
~Michael Keane 3/23/17