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When Leadership Mattered – May 29, 1765

May 25, 2016

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When Leadership Mattered – May 29, 1765

On May 29th one unknown young man changed the world! By Baxter Ennis There are times when things are a mess! It might seem your business, your city, maybe even your nation is on the verge of calamity, and no one seems to know how to prevent it. This was the case in the spring of 1765 when Virginia’s House of Burgesses in Williamsburg had, without a fight it seemed, acquiesced and allowed a loathsome bill, the Stamp Act, to be enacted by the British crown in London. The Stamp Act required a government stamp (or tax) on every publication, some 55 specified items ranging from legal documents to newspapers and even to playing cards. The purpose of the tax was to fund the stationing of 10,000 troops to defend the vast new frontier territory that had been won during the French and…

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