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A Columbian Patriot
Mercy Otis Warren wrote plays that helped start the Revolution, an argument that helped produce the Bill of Rights, and one of the first histories of…
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The Argument That Made a Revolution
James Otis stood up in a Boston courtroom in 1761 and lost. John Adams said American independence was born in that room.
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Victory or Death
December 25–26, 1776: the password was not a slogan. It was an accurate description of the alternatives.
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The Sermon That Ended in a Uniform
The principle: for the founding generation, faith and the republic were not at war. They were the same loyalty.
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The Worst Day
November 16, 1776: Washington watched nearly three thousand of his men surrender, and he had been warned
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The Fleet That Lost and Won
October 11, 1776: Benedict Arnold built a navy out of green timber, took it into a fight he could not win, and saved the Revolution by losing it
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To Write Is to Act
Algernon Sidney was executed in 1683 on the evidence of an unpublished manuscript. Jefferson called the book one of the elementary texts of public…
Sep 17
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The Judge Who Told a King No
Edward Coke dug up Magna Carta, faced down two kings, and decided a case in 1610 that describes the modern administrative state with uncomfortable…
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The Book in Every Law Office
Blackstone taught Americans what their rights were. He also taught them a doctrine of legislative supremacy they had to reject in order to be free.
Sep 10
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One Life to Lose
September 22, 1776: a twenty-one-year-old schoolteacher, a rope, and the sentence that outlived the empire that hanged him
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The Republic That Died
Cicero spent his life arguing that law stands above power. Then a man with an army disagreed.
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The Corset-Maker Who Started a Revolution
Thomas Paine had failed at everything. Then he wrote two pamphlets that changed the world.
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