Opinion: Looking for the modern tipping point

The 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence is fast approaching. What was the tipping point that turned colonists into rebels and protest into violent revolution? Historians cite Britain’s 1773 passage of the Tea Act as a major turning point leading to rebellion. The Tea Act reinforced the principle that Britain’s Parliament could tax the colonists even though they had no representatives in Parliament (“taxation without representation”). Others contend the tipping point came in 1774 with the pa … (read more)

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