For the American Revolutionaries “Liberty or Death” wasn’t just a slogan. It was a warning. Rights aren’t gifts from government, and if you violate them you’ll pay the price. On this episode, it’s the natural rights foundation built on a 2000 year lineage – that made “Rebellion to tyrants” not just a suggestion, but a moral duty: “Obedience to God”

Path to Liberty: March 18, 2026

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Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

John Dickinson – An address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)

Sir William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1748)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 1, Part 1, Chap 10 (1748)

Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics (~330BC)

Cicero – Treatise on the Commonwealth (54-51 BC)

Samuel von Pufendorf – On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to the Natural Law (1673)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 2, Part 1, Chap 3 (1748)

John Locke – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

John Locke – Two Treatises (1689)

Patrick Henry – Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (30 May 1765)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 2, Part 3, Chap 5 (1748)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

John Hancock – Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1774)

Joseph Warren – Letter to Samuel Adams (15 June 1774)

George Washington – Letter to Major General Charles Lee (9 May 1776)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (6 July 1775)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

John Jay – an Address of the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York to Their Constituents (23 Dec 1776)

Benjamin Franklin – Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States (before 14 Aug 1776)

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