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Samuel Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American Patriot and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. He played a major role in starting the American Revolution. Born to Boston parents, Adams was a second child and attended school at Boston Latin School and Harvard College where he received a bachelor's degree in 1740 and a master's degree in 1743; prophetically, the subject of his master's thesis was 'Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.' ..." |
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| 27 Sep 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 2 Oct 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts |
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Sam Adams
The American Revolution Home Page |
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The Rocky Road of American Taxation, by Charles Adams, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Apr 2006
Related Topics: Taxation, American Revolutionary War, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"Sam Adams ... argued that if the Congress had the power to levy a tax on imports, every seaport, from Maine to Georgia, would be filled with an army of overpaid excisemen, tide-waiters, and cellar rats. And what would happen to the funds raised from the sweat of the people? ... Congress ... would squander it with a reckless profusion, he said." |
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The Rights of the Colonists: The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, 20 Nov 1772
Related Topic: Rights
Hanover College History Department, Hanover Historical Texts Project
"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature." |
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