America has a long history of engaging in, winning, and surviving rebellions*.
THEN
Sparking the first rebellion in the American colonies, English King George demanded in his Proclamation of 1763 that settlers on land west of the Appalachian Mountains had to get out. They had to go back home. That didn’t settle well with homesteaders in the west who opposed the English government’s Proclamation.
The second rebellion was against the Stamp Act of 1765. King George, Parliament, and local governors demanded colonists buy stamps to help the English pay their war debts. Colonists were forced to buy stamps for every item they bought which had paper on it, or paper in it. I know. It’s complicated. Colonists opposed the English government’s Stamp Act.
The third rebellion was against the Quartering Act of 1773. This Act forced colonists to house English soldiers in their homes, provide them with food, clean and sew their clothes.
More rebellions against the English and its government policies soon followed:
Townshend Act of 1767.
Boston Massacre of 1770.
Tea Act of 1773.
Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Intolerable Acts of 1774.
By 1775, American colonists were fed-up. They made secret plans to arm themselves in opposition to the British government. They were betrayed by Tories (English loyalists, spies, traitors).
The British army organized 700 soldiers and marched them toward Concord where colonists had secretly stored guns and gunpowder. On the way to Concord and back to Boston, armed colonists and English soldiers shot and killed each other. Rebellion against the English government evolved into a war of revolution.
Twelve years of death and destruction convinced King George and the British government that America’s colonists would indeed rise up in an armed rebellion against a government which by its actions was unjustifiable and unrighteous and replace it with their own government.
AFTER
There were rebellions in early America after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783:
Shay’s Rebellion in 1786.
Whiskey Rebellion in 1791.
Slaveowner’s Rebellion in 1861.
The Slaveowner’s Rebellion also evolved into a war, the War Against Rebellion of Slaveowners. I know. It’s complicated.
After the Union won the war against slavery, Senators were fed-up with former slaveowners who wanted their political power restored. The Senators decided America needed a law to deal with anyone who engaged in future rebellions and opposed the government. They passed and ratified the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, Section Three, Disqualification Clause in 1868.
XIV Amendment, Section 3, Disqualification Clause
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability.”
déjà vu ALL OVER AGAIN
On January 6, 2021, the 45th President and thousands of his supporters violated Section 3, quoted above. They engaged in an armed rebellion and opposed America’s government.
On January 6, 201, the 45th President told his supporters to march from his rally to the Capitol. He told them, “Fight like hell, or you won’t have a government anymore.”
They marched. They rose up in an armed rebellion and opposed America’s Constitution. They attacked the Capitol. They fought like hell. A hell which included:
Hand-to-hand combat with weapons.
Deaths of Americans who were doing their jobs.
Overrunning National Park and U.S. Capitol Police security.
Destroying federal property.
Trashing the U.S. Capitol Building to the tune of $5-$7 million.
* Rebellion, noun, def: armed resistance to established government.
13 Jan 24
What if the “civil” war wasn’t the real name of that war?
What if Americans since 1865, had continued to use the real name, the name President Lincoln, Congress and General Ulysses S. Grant used, the historical name of that war:
“War of Rebellion”?
Who benefited from changing “War of Rebellion” to “Civil War”?
Is something hidden by the name change? Was “Slavery” hidden ?
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadamsingram/p/americas-rebellions-then-after-deja/