Samuel Adams, though ignored today, was know as the Father of the American Revolution because of his Biblical thinking about civil law, and how to re-establish it when a tyrant has taken that law from a people and established his own will as law.

He was born in Boston in 1722 and grew up there, where the merchants said of him that he was so punctual in attendance at school, they could set their clocks by him.

As an adult he failed in business because his entire focus was on law and particularly what the American colonies should do to correct the dictatorship being imposed on them by King George III.  His leadership moved Boston to begin the network known as The Committees of Correspondence.  Continue reading →

Fifty-six chosen men met in Philadelphia, summer 1776, to write a Declaration of Independence to be sent to the King of England.  Young Thomas Jefferson, only thirty-three, would be chosen to write the Declaration.  Even though the committee chosen by the 2nd Continental Congress to write it was also made up of such leaders as John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Roger Sherman, those men chose Jefferson because of his gift for expression and his knowledge, though so young, of law (as rooted in the Bible).

It was a difficult time for Jefferson:  He and his wife had lost a child less than a year before; Continue reading →