Who Was Mercy Otis Warren? | Christian Lasval & Brenda Hafera

Heritage Explains

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Mercy Otis Warren was a writer and playwright whose thought informed the American Revolution and the years following. As Thanksgiving of 2024 nears, Brenda Hafera, Assistant Director of the Simon Center for American Studies, here at the Heritage Foundation, thought it appropriate to reflect on Mrs. Warren’s thoughts, particularly those on gratitude. Heritage Social Media Manager Christian Lasval sat down Brenda to learn about this little-known figure in American history.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.9	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.5	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.6	To remind the current regime.
0:18.8	We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.4	All, all, actually.
0:25.3	We need to get back in their box and stay there.
0:28.2	Lift-on.
0:29.1	We have a left-down.
0:32.0	From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.
0:45.2	Thank you. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. When the new Constitution was proposed in 1787, not all of the great figures of the
0:51.1	American founding were terribly thrilled.
0:53.6	Some saw the new homegrown
0:55.0	American government as potentially as bad as the British government they had overthrown.
1:00.6	One such founding voice said the following. Animated with the firmest zeal for the interest of this
1:06.1	country, the peace and union of the American states, and the freedom and happiness of a people who have made
1:12.2	the most costly sacrifices in the cause of liberty, who have braved the power of Britain,
1:17.2	weathered the convulsions of war, and waded through the blood of friends and foes, to establish
1:21.9	their independence and to support the freedom of the human mind. I cannot silently witness this degradation without
1:29.0	calling on them before they are compelled to blush at their own servitude and to turn back
1:33.8	their languid eyes on the lost liberties, to consider that the character of nations generally
1:39.0	changes at the moment of revolution." It was sentiments like these that eventually led to the passing of the
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