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July 4th American Briefing (Born Out of Struggle)
Born Out of Struggle ©2007/2013, Matt Fitzgibbons (www.PatriotMusic.com)
Both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were born out of struggle. In 1776, Americans were ruled with an iron hand that decreed the English Constitution could be interpreted by both Parliament and the King to mean whatever they said it meant, not what had been clearly understood for a hundred years. England claimed that American representatives could be “virtual”, meaning appointed rather than elected, and the fact that these new representatives had never even set foot in America was of no concern, so long as they voted the way the King expected them to. Effigies of tax collectors were burned and cries of “No taxation without representation!” were heard throughout the American Colonies. Suddenly, Americans were paying a whopping 15% in taxes and decided that taking on the largest army in the world was preferable. While the Declaration of Independence was a united response from the thirteen colonies against too much government, the Bill of Rights was a response to an internal debate about just how much government was necessary.
From 1777, the new United States government operated as a confederacy under the Articles of Confederation. Each State determined its own laws, taxes, and tariffs, could print its own money, had one vote in Congress independent of it’s size or population, and granted no legislative authority to the small and virtually powerless central government. During the war itself, American Colonists had little in common with those in neighboring States, and even had difficulty understanding each others’ accents. Eventually, a national spirit formed, and when the Revolution was won and the debt piled up, it was clear that a new system of government with some degree of centralized authority was desperately needed. Enter the United States Constitution.
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