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To: unclewest who wrote (133228)	5/17/2004 1:45:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We certainly don't disagree on the date of the Declaration of Independence. We apparently shall always disagree as to your characterization that this document "began" "the organized liberation process." As for organized resistance, I would begin with public protests against the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, 1764. For written documents, in response to the Townshend Acts of 1767, resolutions by the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Virginia House of Burgesses. For written documents by the Continental Congress en masse, you'd start in 1774, perhaps with the Association of 1774, which urged all colonists to avoid using British goods, and to form committees to enforce this ban. What you call "the beginning" I say occurred rather late in the day. Tom Jefferson was a very pretty writer, but let's don't give him more credit than he is due. He didn't start the revolution, but hung out on his mountain top while other men were fighting and dying for more than a decade. And he certainly didn't think up the Declaration of Independence all on his own. The place where he wrote his first draft, the City Tavern in Philadelphia, is one of my most favorite places in America, and I make annual (at least) pilgrimages to Monticello.