Throughout world history, every nation has gone through a period in which its leaders began to exercise unjust and even illegal power over its subjects. This action is defined as tyranny. The American Republic was created because our Founding Fathers, after years of appeals to the British crown, refused to live any longer under the unjust control of its tyrannical King and judges.

      When we study the causes of the first American Revolution, we see that the colonists felt the need to secede from Britain's rule for four primary reasons. Britain restricted the colonies religious liberties, imposed oppressive taxation, rejected an appeal to allow the colonies the right of self-government and trampled upon the rights of the people to own property free from government seizure.

      After winning our freedom from Britain, our Founding Fathers created a Constitutional system of government under which the American people were given the power to govern their country free from government tyranny. As Alexander Hamilton said in his speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, Here, sir, the people govern!

      However, over the last sixty years, the U.S. Supreme Court has illegally and unconstitutionally expanded its constitutional powers to make themselves the unchallengeable rulers of America. Long-time Democrat and Republican Senator Strom Thurman had this to say about this unconstitutional usurpation of power by the third branch of government:

      The [Supreme] Court has consistently moved to expand its power till it threatens to be the dominating power of the government. The time has come for action by the Congress to call halt to this unconstitutional seizure of power by the third branch of government.

      It is important to pay close attention to the reasons for the first American Revolution because we, as Americans, are experiencing much of the same tyranny that the Founding Fathers experienced from the leaders of Britain--a government that restricts our religious liberties, nullifies private property rights, enforces oppressive taxation and rejects an appeal by the states for a system of self-government.

      The U.S. Constitution has granted the federal government limited power and the tenth amendment has granted all remaining power to the American people and to each individual state. In my book, The Rise of America: Fighting the Next American Revolution and the Constitutional Crisis, I explain this in much greater detail.