How Did We Get to Where Government Became So Important, People Were Willing to Kill to Change It?

<![CDATA[America was born out of violent dissent. When the British colonists took up arms to protect what they saw as their God-given rights as human beings, it was to "assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them." For the first time in human history, ordinary people were willing to commit violent revolutionary acts to achieve that aim.]]>