Private Economy with Public Magnificence

Speaking of lightning.

 

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The press seemed to enjoy a freer sense of discourse at the time. Most men of property were quite educated with the ideas presented from earlier times in history. Benjamin Franklin took advantage of this freedom. Silence Dogood comes to mind. With his writing and printing knowledge he became quite formidable in presenting new ideas to the public. Publishing all sorts of articles and denunciations at the powers of the day. His power, in time, grew to such an extent that he himself could and did control certain publications from being sent out through the mails.  After all, he was the Post Master General. A perfect office to hold for a publisher! At first, he was a British citizen through and through....the system did work.  it worked great before the debts of the Crown became too overwhelming for the King. 

 

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Links for further study:


Crown and Constitution


The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and American Founding

http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-conte...tution.pdf


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The Child Independence is Born: James Otis and Writs of Assistance

http://scholars.unh.edu/comm_facpub/5/


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The NSA's "General Warrants":


How the Founding Fathers Fought an 18th Century Version of the President's Illegal Domestic Spying

By David Snyder

https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/g...tsmemo.pdf

 

 

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That's a good point! The Madness of King George the III.  How much of the total national economy was devoted to fighting the wars during his reign? How many of his subjects, at home, became indentured and sent to the colonies? Seems as if his subjects were treated like currency to serve a wider, more wicked purpose than that of the Monarch. Who's soul authority is supposed to be divinely inspired to serve the well being of everyone, as best as possible. All well and good, the British constitution. Only, it became infiltrated by those who quantify everything. Who holds their covenant of the 'divine'?

 

After the 7 years war with the French, the booty and land grants were granted mostly to British officers according to rank and privileged. The gentry of the British system of control. There is a prejudice within...Colonial officers and lower rankers were treated with a sense of being less than a citizen of the Empire. It made the colonists feel neglected by the British constitution.  Prejudice for your ones own kind.  Or jealousy...whatever! It's a secular division from within.

 

Earlier, the Spanish displayed these tendencies towards their own kind as well. Example being a pure blood Spaniard born in the mother country was superior in nature to a full blooded Spaniard born in Mexico.


Is this a behavior one should look up to as an example of being human? I think not!

 

Do I detect a bit of rancor within the rankers?  :P

 

Was the 7 years war the war that "made America" and began the hey-day of the British Empire?

The psychological events inflicted upon the American ideal continue...

 

http://forum.chickensomething.com/index....ce/?p=2984

 

What is a real American? Two continents contain that name.

 

Is the American Idea owned and operated by those that should not be?

 



 

To promote good-will, good-fellowship, and everlasting peace between the United States and Great Britain'. Over the years it has boasted an elite membership of politicians, diplomats, businessmen, and writers .

 

 

https://youtu.be/NvImQE854OA
 

10 Amazing Women of the Revolutionary War
 
“I desire you would remember the ladies”
-March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams
 
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/10/10-a...onary-war/

So....
 

 
More Paper!
Paper, all kinds of paper...
This would be known as the Townshend Duties.
 

 
The Townshend Revenue Act
 
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act.
 
Reaction assumed revolutionary proportions in Boston, in the summer of 1768, when customs officials impounded a sloop owned by John Hancock, for violations of the trade regulations. Crowds mobbed the customs office, forcing the officials to retire to a British Warship in the Harbor. Troops from England and Nova Scotia marched in to occupy Boston on October 1, 1768. Bostonians offered no resistance. Rather they changed their tactics. They established non-importation agreements that quickly spread throughout the colonies. British trade soon dried up and the powerful merchants of Britain once again interceded on behalf of the colonies.
 
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/rel...nshend.htm
 

 
Remember those writs of assistance?
 
All of the acts and policy changes started to stack up.  Like making music one note at a time. Stacking the notes to make chords to create lawful Harmony. Harmony for who?
 
The melody is sounding chromatically ominous....
The rhythm began to quicken....
 

 
 
 
 

 

<div>10 Amazing Women of the Revolutionary War
 
“I desire you would remember the ladies”
-March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams
 
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/10/10-a...onary-war/
 

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Dear Abby,

 

The Schlong is a big one!

 

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Like my old granny used to say:  a stiff prick has no conscience.

 

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