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From the Lyon’s Mouth. War an Ode.
ON all these dreary plains, There yet a sorrowing Muse remains, Who has seen with weeping eye, These former domes of love and joy, Happiness, contentment, case, And Freedom cloth’d in robes of peace, Where the Graces us’d to play, Now fallen desolation’s prey;
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The Committee of Five
On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selected five men to serve on a committee for drafting a Declaration of Independence in accordance with the resolves proposed by Richard Henry Lee.
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The Lee Resolves
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed several resolves in the Continental Congress. These resolves set the stage for the American Colonies to finally separate from Great Britain.
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Who is Edmond Laplante and Why is The Uniparty so Scared of Him?
When you’re dealing with a complex system, you don’t improvise. You respect its design. You consult the manual – not to reinvent it, but to understand its limits, its tolerances, and what it was built to do. That’s how I view the Constitution.
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What Is the Quartering Act?
Colonists felt first hand the oppression of having troops kept up for enforcing government dictates on the people. There were even instances of violence brought on by these heavy-handed measures; the most famous of which was called the Boston Massacre where five were killed and three were injured.
