The Olive Branch Petition The Olive Branch Petition was drafted by John Dickenson during the Second Continental Congress on July 5 1775. ... They met a compromise to plea with the King one last time to reach a reasonable solution. ... Among the signatures were those of John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Tomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Lewis Morris, Roger Sherman, and other founding fathers. King George refused to read the petition. ... The Loyalists did not agree with taxes and laws that the King declared. ...

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The king of France, King Louis XVI, was a vital cause of the political influences of the Revolution. ... (Document 1) King Louis XVI didn't care about the well being of France. ... The king agreed to the declaration, but things didn't change. ... The king told them that things would change but it may take a while. ... They were using ideas from America, as well as from John Locke. ...

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John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, near Bristol, England. ... Locke was growing up during the English Civil War, in which Parliamentary forces battled King Charles I over matters of taxation, political power, and true religion. ... John Locke however, did not receive his degree in medicine from Oxford until 1674. ... These concepts originated from the philosophies of John Locke. ... Certainly John Locke had an influential voice to be heard by the people. ...

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This not only caused unrest for Washington, but for all colonists, who were now thinking of breaking away from King George III and England. ... A lesser person might have used this power to establish a military dictatorship or to become king. ... Washington lived only two years after turning over the presidency to his successor, John Adams. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... After John Adams Jefferson became the United States third president. ...

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The colonists responded with the Stamp Act Congress, which drew up a petition to send to King George and Parliament. ... In the early 1760's, when revolutionary ideas were just beginning to emerge, people looked at two sources of information to justify radical ideas: the Bible and John Locke. The Bible told stories of an unjust King in Israel and how he was overthrown when he imposed unfair taxes on his people. ... John Locke, an English Enlightenment philosopher, argued that humans had "natural rights" to life, liberty, and property. ... Finally, colonists received a spirit of revolution...

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John Locke advocated the three natural rights of man, which influenced many of the Enlightenment's changes and revolution. ... The first two estates had never gotten taxed before and now they were going to be by King Louie the Sixteenth, because of France's huge debt problem. ... The Assembly formed an army and stormed the Bastille, where the king was living at the time with his wife and children. ... There were many great thinkers of the Enlightenment, such as John Locke, Galileo, Voltaire, J.J. ...

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During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... Jonathan Mayhew justified overthrowing the King by proving that intentional unjust laws are considered abuse. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, he calls for the people to stand up and fight with their fellow brothers. ... The law set against the colonists were unjust, and the King did not change them regardless of how many petitions the...

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Enlightenment thinkers influenced many of Paine's theories, such as John Locke and Jean- Jacques Rousseau. ... It is believed that at first the world was without kings, but the ancient Jews decided they wanted a King; and it is said that this angered God, but he let them have a King. There are specific pages of biblical evidence that addresses God's wrath at the idea of the Jews having a King. ... Even if the people were to choose to have a King that does not mean the King's child will be a future ruler. ... Paine was influenced by Voltaire, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, and John Loc...

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A motion was to remove the content stating that the King was a tyrant. ... On the flip side of the coin, Pennsylvania argued that the King could could not be a tyrant. ... Jefferson sticks by his beliefs and continues to testify that the King is, in fact, a tyrant. ... They had readily available supplies due to the wealth of Britain and the support of her king. ... And according to John Adams, slaves were also Americans. ...

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Revolutionaries supported the writings of people like John Locke and Voltaire who wrote about everyone having God given rights. ... When they were caught the King was forced to sign and accept the new constitution. ... Upon learning about the King's betrayal, the National Assembly jailed the king and his family, leaving the new government to make laws without worrying about the King interfering. ... People of the Assembly demanded that the King was put on trial for treason. On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was beheaded. ...

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Things in England have been the same for hundreds and hundreds of years. The King or Queen is the figurehead while the Prime Minister and Parliament run the nation. The have a House of Lords and a House of Commons. There is no written document. There is not system of checks and balances. Common law ...

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Things in England have been the same for hundreds and hundreds of years. The King or Queen is the figurehead while the Prime Minister and Parliament run the nation. The have a House of Lords and a House of Commons. There is no written document. There is not system of checks and balances. Common la...

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Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and diplomat, and one of the most important authors of the U.S. Constitution. He was born January 31, 1752, at Morrisiana estate, in Westchester County, NY, in 1752. He lived in a wealthy family of Loyalists. He had a half brother, named Lewis, who sig...

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Clever and witty writers such as John Adams and Thomas Paine relayed information, and support through their writings; conveying to not to give up. ... " He excites the emotions of the colonists, and uses his own opinions to make the colonists angrier at King George and the British. ...

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XXI Of the Liberty of Subjects John Locke - First is the assumption of a system of morality--the natural law derives from a theory of justice, a set of rights. ... - Locke then posits that proof of this natural law lies in the fact that, even though a person cannot reasonably be under the power of a foreign king, if a person commits a crime in a foreign country they can still be punished...

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He speaks of man's natural right to govern themselves and King George's actions not protecting but suppressing these rights. ... This unending passion for the rights of man prompted John Adams to say, "Without the pen of Paine the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain"(Kashathus 2)....

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government." Up until 1776 when the War en...

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In his acts of rebellion against King George III's presumably tyrannous misdeeds ultimately led to the separation of the colonial people into the Tories and the Whigs, the loyalists and the patriots. ... Congress had voted to discipline him for his actions but John Quincy Adams came to his defense. ...

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