Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builders Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And we're sharing with you during these kind of holiday weeks, some of the pro-family legislators conference presentations.

So we have a lot of great speakers that come in.

And we also get some of David and Tim Barton's best stuff, new stuff that they put together.

And then some reminders of things they've been teaching for years, but in the context of

exactly what's happening in the culture today.

So it's an exciting time of the year to really kind of regroup, get educated on

some of these things, and get ready for the coming year of 2025 and all of the opportunities we're

going to have to take back ground. It's going to be super exciting. Last couple of days, we heard one of

Tim Barton's presentation. It's got another one for you. This one about the American Revolution.

Looking forward to it, we're going to jump right in with Tim Barton at the pro-family legislators conference.

I want to talk about big picture thoughts from the American Revolution. I'm calling it winning

the war because this was the most unlikely upset. Maybe like spectrum of military history,

how long might be debatable. But this is certainly on the list of like

unlikely upsets. This is up there. And I want to go through and tell some of the story, the unlikely

upsets, but then I want to draw some observations at the end that I think might be applicable

for many of us in different states. And it might be different areas where you are. But let me,

let me start with the beginning.

So as you look at the beginnings of the revolution, I think we probably, easy starting place

to be going back to the stamp act. Why? Because this is when the British first put a tax

and said any imported paper, right, any certain these goods that come in, you're going to have

to have a stamp on it. We're going to tax you for it. And the opening charter for all the colonies was that they would not be any taxes that they did not vote on and agree.

And this was the first time there was a tax approved with no consent from the colonies, which led, of course, to the cry that there should be no taxation without representation.

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