RPG Hoard Milestones: 1750–1775 The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. Cartoon originally appearing in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754 Representatives of the colonial governments adopted the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress. Prior to the Albany Congress, a number of intellectuals and government officials had formulated and published several tentative plans for centralizing the colonial governments of North America. The Albany Congress began on June 19, 1754, and the commissioners voted unanimously to discuss the possibility of union on June 24. The Albany Plan was not conceived out of a desire to secure independence from Great Britain.
Inalienable Right Law and Legal Definition Inalienable right refers to rights that cannot be surrendered, sold or transferred to someone else, especially a natural right such as the right to own property. However, these rights can be transferred with the consent of the person possessing those rights. Inalienable is defined as incapable of being surrendered or transferred; at least without one's consent.[Morrison v. State, 252 S.W.2d 97, 101 (Mo. The Declaration of Independence also speaks about unalienable rights. For example, Illinois Const., Art. Some rights are made inalienable because the law prohibits the same. The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800 On the afternoon of September 23, 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, from his Monticello home, wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush, the noted Philadelphia physician. One matter dominated Jefferson’s thoughts: that year’s presidential contest. Indeed, December 3, Election Day—the date on which the Electoral College would meet to vote—was only 71 days away. Jefferson was one of four presidential candidates. As he composed his letter to Rush, Jefferson paused from time to time to gather his thoughts, all the while gazing absently through an adjacent window at the shimmering heat and the foliage, now a lusterless pale green after a long, dry summer. Though he hated leaving his hilltop plantation and believed, as he told Rush, that gaining the presidency would make him “a constant butt for every shaft of calumny which malice & falsehood could form,” he nevertheless sought the office “with sincere zeal.” Jefferson was not alone in believing that the election of 1800 was crucial.
Natural Rights Thomas Jefferson, age 33, arrived in Philadelphia on June 20, 1775, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress. Fighting at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill had already broken out between the colonists and British troops. Even so, most in Congress wanted to work out some mutual agreement with the mother country. For more than a year, the Americans had sent petitions to England proclaiming their grievances against the British government. Soon after Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia, Congress assigned him to draft a document explaining why the colonists had taken up arms against England. Neither Parliament nor King George, however, were interested in negotiations to prevent all-out war. In May 1776, the Continental Congress took a fateful step and passed a resolution that attacked King George himself. The Declaration of Independence Working off and on while attending to other duties, Jefferson completed his draft of the declaration in a few days. Natural Rights Booknotes
Diceless Roleplaying Game Rules - links Historically "diceless" in roleplaying games has really meant free of "artificial" randomizers not simply dice, and such is the case of most of these games. "Non-artificial" randomizers are acceptable, these are generally balanced / non-transitive game choices which often map to real world choices. Free Diceless Games Active Exploits - Allocate Effort (actually a fatigue based limit but integrates ability value nicely) and Luck/Revelation - Core Mechanics Free - local copy - also listed under commercial games below. Ancient Arenas - a Lost Worlds Roleplaying Game - a card based extension to transform this gladiatorial picture book game. Argument Diceless Roleplaying - think of the title like a fencing term rather than an evocation of belligerance. Alternate Roleplaying Concepts a Diceless Roleplaying Game with an absolutist bent which attempts to eschew numbers and invoke the cinematic. Attack of the Mutant Rules System! Daidolos a german language diceless rpg... would that I spoke german.
At Its Core, the Declaration of Independence Was a Plea for Help From Britain’s Enemies On a warm summer’s day in Philadelphia in 1776, early in the throes of American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrestled with the opening sentences of a document that would bring much-needed help to the embattled colonists. After over a year of war with Britain, the military situation was dire. Without the direct intervention of Britain’s adversaries, France and Spain, the colonies could not hope to prevail against the superior British army and navy. Americans, therefore, celebrate the Fourth of July under false pretenses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The colonists already had decided to break free from British rule. But so far, the American nation had proven stunningly incapable of fending for itself, like a rebellious adolescent who takes leave of his family without a penny to his name. Jefferson knew that neither the French nor the Spanish king would take sides in a British civil war. The effect of Paine’s words was almost immediate. And they did.
The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights - The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights At the National Constitution Center, you will find rare copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These are the three most important documents in American history. But why are they important, and what are their similarities and differences? And how did each document, in turn, influence the next in America’s ongoing quest for liberty and equality? There are some clear similarities among the three documents. Most importantly, the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are based on the idea that all people have certain fundamental rights that governments are created to protect. At the same time, the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are different kinds of documents with different purposes. Despite these similarities and differences, the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are, in many ways, fused together in the minds of Americans, because they represent what is best about America.
The Nobilis Role Playing Game This page is primarily for people interested in the Nobilis role playing game. Included here is a summary of the system, house rules that I have developed, and assorted other tidbits. The official unofficial page is at www.chancel.org if you are interested. There is also a mailing list archive at Nocturne . Nobilis is a diceless role playing game set in the modern times. A more complete summary of the system as described in the book is provided by my friend Ry in the following synopsis. As stated before, the setting (at least in the Earthly realm) is the modern world. I have included some topics of consideration for those thinking of playing. This page is maintained by Charles Schmidt. Nobilis, is designed and written by R.
We Could Have Been Canada And what if it was a mistake from the start? The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices and madness of American life since then have occurred not in spite of the virtues of the Founding Fathers but because of them? The Revolution, this argument might run, was a needless and brutal bit of slaveholders’ panic mixed with Enlightenment argle-bargle, producing a country that was always marked for violence and disruption and demagogy. Look north to Canada, or south to Australia, and you will see different possibilities of peaceful evolution away from Britain, toward sane and whole, more equitable and less sanguinary countries. No revolution, and slavery might have ended, as it did elsewhere in the British Empire, more peacefully and sooner. No “peculiar institution,” no hideous Civil War and appalling aftermath.
Bill of Rights Institute When most of us think of “rights,” we imagine things we are free to do, like speak our minds, or practice a religion, or sell something that we have made. We assume, when we imagine these actions, that there is nobody stopping us from doing them. When we study history, however, we realize that many people in the past lacked—and a great many around the world today still lack—the freedom to exercise many of the rights we take for granted. The American Founders, however, argued that people have rights regardless of whether they are able to put them into practice. This is why they called these rights “natural.” They are part of what it means to be a person. When the Founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” they were not ignoring the obvious differences that make people individuals—differences in appearance, personality, aptitude, skills, and character. In other words, a right is one thing, but the freedom to exercise it is something else.