Rev250-026 Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress approved a document explaining the reasons why they felt justified in taking up arms against the British government. For more details, check up Episode 68 of the American Revolution Podcast: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/10/episode-068-congress-olive-branch.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.7	Hello, and thanks for joining Revolution 250, where we look at events that took place 250 years ago
0:11.4	this week. This is from the American Revolution podcast, just a short bonus episode to remind you
0:17.7	about these important anniversaries from the Revolutionary War.
0:21.9	This week, we remember the publication of
0:24.4	The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.
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0:57.1	required Teas and Cs apply. As part of its efforts to justify taking up arms against the government,
1:03.9	the Continental Congress asked a committee to draw up a declaration on taking up arms. The committee
1:09.6	came back with a declaration on June 26, 1775,
1:13.8	but the delegates weren't happy with it, so they scrapped that version and tasked John Dickinson
1:19.5	of Pennsylvania and newly arrived delegate Thomas Jefferson of Virginia to come up with a better
1:26.1	declaration. Dickinson and Jefferson took a couple of weeks to come up with a better declaration. Dickinson and Jefferson took a couple of weeks
1:29.9	to come up with the document that has become known as the causes and necessity of taking up arms.
1:36.8	The document begins, if it was possible for men who exercised their reason to believe that the divine
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