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A plaque marks the triangular green as the “Birthplace of American liberty” and a burial monument honors “The first victims to the sword of British tyranny and oppression.”
Jacob Sullum's For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health surveys five centuries of tobacco abolitionism and concludes what tobacco's foes want more than money: They want to see the last butt snuffed out.
"When, in the Course of Human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to rise up against such tyranny, we offer our own modest proposal: A Diners' bill of rights, one designed to inspire a new dialogue between restaurant-goers and restaurateurs and to make the dining experience as pleasant as it always promises to be."
The Constitution grew out of a convention held in 1787 by a cabal of elite politicians, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who decided that the nation's founding document, the Articles of Confederation, was too weak to hold the . But many citizens eyed the Constitutional Convention of 1787 warily, worrying that a strengthened federal authority would metamorphose into precisely the sort of tyranny they had just toppled.
Loved by millions, this hero gave his life trying to protect the ones he loved, after a lifetime devoted to fighting tyranny in all its guises.