As We Launch The 250th Anniversary Of Our Founding…

Every year, when Independence Day approaches—and you’ll notice I say Independence Day and not “the Fourth of July”—I rewatch the HBO series John Adams. Now, I know historical purists will gravitate towards some of the artistic license in the series, but for the most part, the storyline is true, and the place the viewer is brought to accurately portrays the frustration, danger, and uncertainty the Founding Generation held at hand.

While the entire series is absolutely worth watching—and more than appropriately, this week—I have pulled a few of the more memorable moments from the series to illustrate the intensity of what it must have been like to go through those moments in time.

We often forget that at the time of the American Revolution, there were no countries that had created a system of government for themselves. Most governments stemmed from monarchies. So the very idea of “liberty,” of a free people establishing a government for themselves, was a foreign idea.

But with each aggression perpetrated against the colonists reaching an intolerable level, the subject of Natural Law rights and liberty came into play.

In this clip, John Adams is speaking to his church congregation about liberty, upon his nomination to the Continental Congress:

As an aside, Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, as well as all in the cast, gave performances that should have found them all award winners, but since it was a pro-American film made during the delusional days of the Obama administration, the entertainment industry wasn’t keen on it. Nevertheless….

After the subject became one that could emerge from the shadows; after the colonies assembled in Philadelphia to seat the Continental Congress, it didn’t take long for reality to set in that King George had made up his mind to bring the colonies to heel by force, declaring that if caught, the insurrectionists (our Founding Fathers) would be executed as traitors.

Nevertheless, a committee was formed to ink what is now historically referred to as the Declaration of Independence. Most believe that Thomas Jefferson alone authored the document, but, in fact, four others were on the committee, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, with Adams and Franklin playing a larger role than the latter.

In this clip, featuring Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson, you can begin to understand the complexity of what the Framers were trying to accomplish. And far from what the radical Left of today would have you believe, the Framers were well aware of the abomination of slavery:

Imagine pouring your heart and intellect into a rough draft document like Jefferson’s version of the Declaration and being brought to the reality that the whole of Congress was going to be able to bastardize it! Imagine what today’s Congress would do to that document with the ikes of AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Jasmine Crockett in its ranks! This is the reason most understand that today’s government is intellectually inferior to the intellect that was amassed at the beginning of our Republic.

Even in 1776, it took a well-crafted and emotional argument to persuade the members of the Continental Congress to embark on what everyone believed to be an impossible task: cleaving the colonies away from Great Britain via a war with the world’s most powerful military, and this doesn’t even address the impossible task of creating a constitution for a new nation, which would come much later.

In this clip