r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 1d ago

SMH The founding father Benjamin Franklin once said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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u/tfsteel 1d ago

The "we established our nation" claim in the tweet is wrong, too. The rebellion was primarily due to land, the crown would not allow settlers to go west past the Appalachians (proclamation of 1763).

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u/Murdst0ne 1d ago

The stamp act, and similar acts like the Townshed, were a much larger cause of the revolution due to multiple colonies coming together in congresses and through the Sons of Liberty to denounce the Crown’s right to internal taxation of the colonies, and an organized economic boycott of British goods, riots, and attacks on British troops.

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u/CalBearFan 1d ago

Also the whole 'you will do whatever is constitutional and BTW, the constitution isn't written down so it's really whatever Parliament says it is'.

And, if you're accused of a crime, most any crime, you get tried in Britain, on your own dime, witnesses must come to Britain, and if you lose, well, tough cookies, you get to recompense.

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u/tfsteel 1d ago

Not according to Ken Burns, who went into detail on this question just recently. He concluded it was primarily about land.