Posted by
Jerry Stokes on Monday, August 31, 2009 9:54:27 PM
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</p><p>Q: Who said "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"?
</p>A: "Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin." They proposed placing the motto on the Great Seal of the United States.
History & Development: the phrase was created by John Bradshaw (1602–1659), the lawyer who served as president of the parliamentary commission which sentenced British King Charles I to death. But who thought up the idea?
British Civil War: The murder of Becket horrified public opinion, and Henry accurately saw that his throne was in grave danger. He did penance, allowing himself to be scourged by some monks. He worked out a compromise with the church in which he revoked the Constitutions of Clarendon, was allowed to claim that he never wanted Becket killed, but did take responsibility for indirectly inciting Becket's death by proclaiming the Constitutions in the first place.
<p>"[I]f the king ceases to govern the kingdom, and begins to act as a tyrant, to destroy justice, to overthrow peace, and to break his faith, the man who has taken the oath is free from it, and the people are entitled to depose the king and to set up another, inasmuch as he has broken the principle upon which their mutual obligation depended."</p><p><span style="'line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;"><a href="http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_05/kopel-tyrants.html">http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2004_05/kopel-tyrants.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>5/11/2009 8:42 AM.</span></p><p>
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