American Revolution
Nullifying the Stamp Act
Every so often, a candid examination of current events makes famous incidents in American history altogether relevant yet again. Given the modern political landscape, in my mind no incident demonstrates this more than the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765. Few episodes in...
The Evolution of Sovereignty in American Political Thought
When Americans talk about the Revolution, they generally mean the fight with the British. But there was a more fundamental revolution that began long before the first shot was fired and ultimately drove Americans to seek independence– a revolution of thought. In an...
Nullifying the Stamp Act: Government Replaced by the Sons of Liberty
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the book, Conceived in Liberty – Murray Rothbard’s a full treatment of the Colonial period of American history, a period lost to students today. CHAPTER 32: Government Replaced by the Sons of Liberty The Stamp Act was,...
How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution
When people think of the causes of the American War for Independence, they think of slogans like “no taxation without representation” or cause célèbre like the Boston Tea Party. In reality, however, what finally forced the colonials into a shooting war with the...