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	<title>The Moral Liberal &#187; american revolution</title>
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		<title>Vermont Court Pierces Sovereign Immunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COURTS, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT Our U.S. legal system came to us from medieval England, where no one could ever sue the King. The American Revolution replaced the King with representative government, but the doctrine of “sovereign immunity” still exists. Government is immune from claims against it, except where authorized by special laws. Trial attorneys would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 19, 1765 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS The members of this congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty&#8217;s person and government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the Protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Declaration of Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776. John Hancock was president of the Congress and Charles Thomson was secretary. A copy of the Declaration, engrossed on parchment, was signed by members of Congress on and after August 2, 1776. On January 18, 1777, Congress ordered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Remarkable Marquis de Lafayette</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phyllis Schlafly Today is the birthday of one of the genuine heroes of the American Revolution, who was also one of history&#8217;s most unique and remarkable individuals, the Marquis de Lafayette. Born September 6, 1757, his father died before he was two years old, his mother died when he was 12, and he inherited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Federalist Papers, No. 45: James Madison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, James Madison, Federalist No. 45 Saturday, January 26, 1788 HAVING shown that no one of the powers transferred to the federal government is unnecessary or improper, the next question to be considered is, whether the whole mass of them will be dangerous to the portion of authority left in the several States. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Minute with Bill Federer &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!&#8221; was the order given JUNE 17, 1775, by Colonel William Prescott to troops on Breed&#8217;s Hill, adjacent Bunker Hill, guarding the north entrance to Boston Harbor. They were aiming at 2,300 British soldiers, under General Howe, marching at them with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concord 1775: Be On the Defensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<title>Thomas Paine: The American Crisis I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Hickory, and Carrying a Bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/03/24/old-hickory-and-carrying-a-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Old Hickory!" During the Revolution, young Andrew Jackson refused to polish the boots of a British officer and was slashed on the arm with a sword and jailed.]]></description>
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		<title>On American Independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hand of Heaven appears to have led us on to be, perhaps, humble instruments and means in the great providential dispensation which is completing. Sam Adams ]]></description>
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		<title>A Need for Repentance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 16, 1775, the President James Warren signed the Massachusetts Resolution which recommended that the people repent and keep the Christian Sabbath.]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Thinker: Novanglus Essays No. 9: John Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the dictates of reason and nature Americans are entitled to all the liberties of Englishmen, but are not bound by any acts of parliament whatever. John Adams]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Thinker: Novanglus Essay No. 8: John Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The patriots of this province desire nothing new; they wish only to keep their old privileges. John Adams]]></description>
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		<title>Cornwallis, and the Surrender of Chesapeake Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commander-in-Chief earnestly recommends troops not on duty should universally attend with that gratitude of heart.]]></description>
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		<title>Marquis de Lafayette, Friend of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Webster to Lafayette: "God...has allowed you to behold the reward of your patriotic toils; and He has allowed to us in the name of liberty to thank you!"]]></description>
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		<title>It Having Pleased Divine Providence&#8211;The Treaty of Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity." Thus began the Treaty of Paris which ended the Revolutionary War -American Minute]]></description>
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		<title>Treason of the Blackest Dye Discovered By God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A providential miracle at the last minute detected the treacherous scheme of traitor Benedict Arnold ..." - Yale President, Ezra Stiles ]]></description>
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		<title>The Miracle Fog at Brooklyn Heights &#8212; American Minute</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/08/27/the-miracle-fog-at-brooklyn-heights-american-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["May the God of the armies of Israel shower down the blessings of his Divine Providence...in the day of battle and danger."]]></description>
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		<title>John Paul Jones Raids the English Coast.</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/08/03/john-paul-jones-raids-the-english-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During April, 1778, John Paul Jones of the American warship, Ranger, raided the English coast—burned the docks at Whitehaven—captured the Drake—escaped the Britsh fleet—all before sailing to France. The raid forced the British to deploy warships along their coast, keeping them away from America, and encouraged the French to provide monetary support for the American Navy. - Democratic Thinker]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Adams &#8212; Candidus, 14 October 1776 &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/07/28/samuel-adams-candidus-14-october-1776-democratic-thinker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the Revolution, Samuel Adams sends another of his firey letters—under the psuedonym, Candidus—to the Boston Gazette, advancing his belief in Liberty. Wrote Adams: "The truth is, All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." - Democratic Thinker ]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Adams: Oration &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hand of Heaven appears to have led us on to be, perhaps, humble instruments and means in the great Providential dispensation which is completing. We have fled from the political Sodom; let us not look back, lest we perish and become a monument of infamy and derision to the world.  - Samuel Adams]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom, Duty, and Action &#8212; John Dickinson</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/06/10/wisdom-duty-and-action-john-dickinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It certainly is not a wise man, who folds his arms, and reposes himself at home, viewing with unconcern, the flames that have invaded his neighbors house, without using any endeavors to extinguish them. ... -- American Founder, John Dickinson]]></description>
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		<title>Independence Resolution &#8212; Richard Henry Lee</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/05/18/independence-resolution-richard-henry-lee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of a right, ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved, from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. - Richard Henry Lee]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble With Democracy &#8212; John Adams</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/04/23/the-trouble-with-democracy-john-adams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the beginning [of the Revolution] I saw more difficulty from our attempts to govern ourselves than from all the armies and fleets of Europe. - John Adams]]></description>
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		<title>American Revolution, Part II &#8212; Benjamin Rush</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/04/22/american-revolution-part-ii-benjamin-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have changed our forms of government, but it remains yet to effect a revolution in our principles, opinions and manners so as to accommodate them to the forms of government we have adopted. - Benjamin Rush]]></description>
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		<title>A Question of Freedom or Slavery &#8212; Patrick Henry</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/23/a-question-of-freedom-or-slavery-patrick-henry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations...who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave... (Patrick Henry)]]></description>
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		<title>The Hard Work of Liberty &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/13/the-hard-work-of-liberty-thomas-paine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Quote of the Day Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. &#8211; Thomas Paine The Liberty Letters is a project of The Moral Liberal and the Center for Moral Liberalism. Daily Founding Era quotes, with occasional commentary from editor in chief, Steve Farrell. Help support The Moral Liberal with your purchase of Steve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Hope of Kindling a Fire in Others &#8212; Moses Mather</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/02/15/in-hope-of-kindling-a-fire-in-others-moses-mather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found­ing Era Polit­i­cal Ser­mons, 1775, Moses Mather At a time when we are called upon to surrender our liberties, our religion, and country; or defend them at the point of the sword, against those, that were our friends, our brethren, and allies (whose swords, and ours, till lately were never drawn but for mutual defence; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven Ordained Prayer At The Continental Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/30/heaven-ordained-prayer-at-the-continental-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Minute with Bill Federer Jacob Duche&#8217; was born JANUARY 31, 1738. An Anglican minister, the Continental Congress had requested he open their first session with prayer. Conscious of impending British attack, Rev. Jacob Duche&#8217; read Psalm 35: Plead my cause, Oh, Lord, with them that strive with me, fight against them that fight against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Colonial Rights: Resolution of the First Continental Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/26/declaration-of-colonial-rights-resolution-of-the-first-continental-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Oct. 14, 1774, First Continental Congress [Following the Boston Tea Party and the adoption of the Intolerable Acts, delegates gathered on September 5, 1774, at Philadelphia, in what was to become the First Continental Congress. Every colony but Georgia was represented. They voted on September 6 to appoint a committee "to state the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Plan For Colonial Union &#8212; Benjamin Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/22/a-plan-for-colonial-union-benjamin-franklin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, 1754/66, Benjamin Franklin [Benjamin Franklin (1706- 90), philosopher and statesman, was one of America's most versatile leaders. His services in the Second Continental Congress, as agent and minister to France during the Revolutionary War, and his work in the Federal Convention of 1787 are only a few of his outstanding civic accomplishments. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#039;s Catholic Patriot &#8212; Bishop John Carroll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Minute with Bill Federer JANUARY 23, 1789, John Carroll founded Georgetown University. He was brother of Daniel Carroll, who signed the U.S. Constitution and gave the land where the Capitol is built. He was cousin to Charles Carroll, the wealthiest man in America and the longest living signer of the Declaration of Independence. John&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albany Plan of Union &#8212; Benjamin Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/21/albany-plan-of-union-benjamin-franklin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, 1754, Benjamin Franklin This popular woodcut was seen often during the later colonial era, and urged the colonists to overcome their parochial interests and form a strong union. Not until the Revolution, however, did unity outweigh long-standing suspicions. In the early 1750s, rivalry between England and France over who would control the North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved &#8212; James Otis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Otis (1764) — Posi­tion state­ment that laid the foun­da­tion for the Dec­la­ra­tion of Independence]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Declaration of Rights &#8212; George Mason</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, June 1776, George Mason (Principal Author) A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. SECTION I. That all men are by nature equally free and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 13b &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Sept. 9 1783, Thomas Paine A Supernumerary Crisis IN &#8220;Rivington&#8217;s New York Gazette,&#8221; of December 6th, is a publication, under the appearance of a letter from London, dated September 30th; and is on a subject which demands the attention of the United States. The public will remember that a treaty of commerce between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 13 &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, April 19, 1783, Thomas Paine Thoughts on the Peace, and the probable Advantages thereof &#8220;THE times that tried men&#8217;s souls,&#8221;[1] are over — and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. But to pass from the extremes of danger to safety — from the tumult of war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 12 &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/11/the-american-crisis-12-thomas-paine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Oct. 29, 1782, Thomas Paine To the Earl of Shelburne MY LORD, — A speech, which has been printed in several of the British and New York newspapers, as coming from your lordship, in answer to one from the Duke of Richmond, of the 10th of July last, contains expressions and opinions so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 11b &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, May 31, 1782, Thomas Paine A Supernumerary Crisis. To Sir Guy Carleton IT is the nature of compassion to associate with misfortune; and I address this to you in behalf even of an enemy, a captain in the British service, now on his way to the headquarters of the American army, and unfortunately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 11 &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/01/09/the-american-crisis-11-thomas-paine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, May 22, 1782, Thomas Paine On the present State of News SINCE the arrival of two, if not three packets in quick succession, at New York, from England, a variety of unconnected news has circulated through the country, and afforded as great a variety of speculation. That something is the matter in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis 10b &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, March 5, 1782, Thomas Paine To the People of America &#8212; On the expenses, arrangements and disbursements for carrying on the war, and finishing it with honor and advantage. WHEN any necessity or occasion has pointed out the convenience of addressing the public, I have never made it a consideration whether the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis No. 10 &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine On the King of England&#8217;s Speech OF all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know them. Although the situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis No. 9b &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Oct. 4, 1780, Thomas Paine The Crisis Extraordinary. On the Subject of Taxation. IT IS impossible to sit down and think seriously on the affairs of America, but the original principles upon which she resisted, and the glow and ardor which they inspired, will occur like the undefaced remembrance of a lovely scene. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis No. 9 &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, June 9, 1790, Thomas Paine HAD America pursued her advantages with half the spirit that she resisted her misfortunes, she would, before now, have been a conquering and a peaceful people; but lulled in the lap of soft tranquillity, she rested on her hopes, and adversity only has convulsed her into action. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis VIII &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, March 1780, Thomas Paine Address to the People of England &#8220;TRUSTING (says the king of England in his speech of November last,) in the divine providence, and in the justice of my cause, I am firmly resolved to prosecute the war with vigor, and to make every exertion in order to compel our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis VII &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Nov. 21, 1778, Thomas Paine To the People of England THERE are stages in the business of serious life in which to amuse is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Minute with Bill Federer A 3-cent stamp honoring Betsy Ross was issued in Philadelphia, JANUARY 2, 1952, commemorating the 200th anniversary of her birth. Born a day earlier, January 1, 1752, to a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Betsy was the 8th of 17 children. She apprenticed as a seamstress and fell in love with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis VI &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, October 20, 1788, Thomas Paine To the Earl of Carlisle, General Clinton, and William Eden, Esq., British Commissioners at New York. THERE is a dignity in the warm passions of a Whig, which is never to be found in the cold malice of a Tory. In the one nature is only heated — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis Vb &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, March 21, 1778, Thomas Paine To The Inhabitants Of America WITH all the pleasure with which a man exchanges bad company for good, I take my leave of Sir William and return to you. It is now nearly three years since the tyranny of Britain received its first repulse by the arms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Crisis II &#8212; Thomas Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, Thomas Paine, 1777 To Lord Howe &#8220;What&#8217;s in the name of lord, that I should fear To bring my grievance to the public ear?&#8221; Churchill UNIVERSAL empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience, he can assign them their duty. The [...]]]></description>
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