Essays on Stamp Act

Since the beginning of time, humans have been all but submissive to authority. If we see something that we disagree with, we have a tendency to work to change it to our benefit. Humans tend to display forms of retaliation in one of three ways: economically, violently, or intellectually. According to Hobbesian ideals, humans should...

In the spring of 1765, the as of late established Stamp Act was the prime point of political discussion in the American settlements. In Virginia, the present session of the House of Burgesses was attracting to a nearby and a significant number of the agents had just set out toward home. Patrick Henry, who had...

As the dictionary explains if something is inevitable, you give the sense that no matter what scheme you come with to get around it, it is going to happen sooner or later. There are things you can avoid in life but other things will always happen, like death or taxes. Now, was the American Revolution...