Who Owns the American Revolution?
Jill Lepore - 3 May 2010
- Parliament passed the Tea Act, in May of 1773, in order to bail out the East India Company, which, with a surplus of tea and stiff competition from smugglers, was facing bankruptcy.
- Ironically, by eliminating duties on tea in England and lowering th import tax to just three pence. the Tea Act actually reduced the price of tea in the colonies.
- Originalism - the idea that the original meaning of the framers is knowable and fixed and the final word.
- The history that tea parties want to go back to is fictional.
- 10th Amendment - "The powers not delegated to the US by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
- Tea partiers want these powers because they feel disenfranchised since they didn't vote nor do they like Obama.
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