Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 - October 3, 1803) on Individual and Society(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Statesman, Political Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States
: American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.”
Source: "The Rights of the Colonists," by Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, November 20, 1772.
"The Rights of the Colonists," by Samuel Adams, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, November 20, 1772.
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