Guest Host: Chris Hinkley, RBN host of Road Warrior Radio | The tyranny of the Judiciary, and the modern Administrative State have effectively and entirely usurped the Constitution and its Republic. What is our recourse? What is our remedy? I advocate we begin by reading:
* John Adams' February 13, 1818 letter to Hezekiah Niles
* John Adams' June 1, 1818 letter to William Tudor concerning the 'name and character' of James Otis
* John Adams' June 9, 1818 letter to William Tudor concerning the 'name and character' of James Otis
There are a number of excellent resources to investigate further, including the Online Library of Liberty (OLL). The National Humanities Center (NHC) actually has a fantastic resource for this investigation as well, a series titled Making the Revolution: America, 1763-1791. The series is comprised of five sections, each with its own sub-sections. The five main sections are:
* CRISIS: 1763-1775
* REBELLION: 1775-1776
* WAR: 1775-1783
* INDEPENDENCE: 1783-1791
* CONSTITUTION: 1787-1791
Section One 'Crisis' includes the following:
* 1763: Britain Victorious
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to British victory in the French and Indian War, 1759-1763
* - Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe (1759), oil on canvas, 1770
* 1764: Loyal Subjects?
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to the Sugar & Currency Acts, 1764
* - A Briton's warning to Britain: Thomas Pownall, The Administration of the Colonies, 1764, selection
* 1765-66: Stamp Act Crisis
* - Parliamentary debate on the Stamp Act, 1765, selections
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to the Stamp Act, 1765-1766
* - "A Poetical Dream concerning Stamped Papers," poem (anonymous), 1765
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to the Stamp Act's repeal, 1766
* 1766-69: The Crisis Deepens
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to the Townshend Acts, 1767-1770
* - COMPILATION: Colonists respond to the Quartering Act, 1766-1767
* - John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letters 1 & 2, 1767
* - Artists' depictions of the arrival of British troops in Boston, 1768
* 1770: Violence—and Pause