Understanding What Started the American Revolution | Free Speech, THE STAMP ACT & Economics

In which I combine history, philosophy, and politics (just like they did in the old days), using original historical sources to tell an important story, one that has been too-long forgotten and which involves topics we are dealing with today: The Limits of Power, Free Speech, Economic Re-sets, Self-Sufficiency, and How to Make Real Change.

Gaze into this mirror, my friends, and enjoy my latest absurdity of a video.

00:00 A Shocking Series of Events
2:28 The First Act of American Rebellion: Why the Revolution Began
7:33 TOWNSHEND vs. BARRÉ: Is The Stamp Act Tyrannical or Fair?
12:19 A Tax on Printing: How the Stamp Act Would Restructure Colonial Society
15:25 JOHN ADAMS & the Right to KNOWLEDGE: Information Highways & Civil Liberty
23:05 JOHN MILTON: FREE SPEECH is the Root of All Civil Liberty
32:57 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Optimism & Patient, Peaceful Political Strategy that Works
42:40 Repeal & Self-Sufficiency: How Agrarian-based Mercantile Boycotts Effected Repeal
51:19 No Liberty Without Knowledge & Self-Sufficiency

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SOME SOURCES

John Adams

“A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 1, 12 August 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0052-0004

“A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, 30 September 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0052-0006

“A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 4, 21 October 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0052-0007

Instructions Adopted by the Braintree Town Meeting, 24 September 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0054-0003

Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Gazette, 14 October 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0057

Benjamin Franklin

Silence Dogood, No. 8, 9 July 1722
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0015

Letter From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0103

Letter From Benjamin Franklin to John Hughes, 9 August 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0123

From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 1 March 1766
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0055#BNFN-01-13-02-0055-fn-0004

Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons, 13 February 1766
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0035

Deborah Franklin
Letter To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 22 September 1765
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0145

John Milton
Areopagitica (1644)
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Areopagitica_(1644)