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What Does It Mean?. History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly.” Benjamin Franklin.
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What Does It Mean? History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly.”Benjamin Franklin
Franklins quote • In Franklins quote he speaks to the fact that “by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people.“This is very much like what happened when we watched John Adams. I learned these next items from the John Adams Miniseries and the Crossroads a Meeting of Nations textbook by Michael Cranny. The judges and people did not want to listen to what happened during the Boston Massacre because they believed the British were to blame. So rather than listening to both sides the people tried to make the judges find the soldiers guilty of treason.
The Boston Massacre • What is the Boston Massacre? Well the Boston Massacre happened on a day in 1770. During a large riot of townspeople against British soldiers the soldiers accidentally fired their muskets into a crowd of people. The people who survived then tried to get the soldiers hung even though they had only misunderstood a command. All of this because the people were angry at British soldiers. • David has a great blog post about these times. He said “But to my regret, did come the Boston Massacre. I had mixed feelings on it. But whether the soldiers who fired their rifles deserved what was dismissed upon them was not onto me to decide, and yet it seemed I who was the one to be taken revenge upon by their opposers.” A illustration of the Boston massacre from a Boston person’s point of view
What does that mean today • Today – This quote has context to today. Why? Politicians are constantly fighting with each other. People have been taking each other to court over matters that are sometimes unimportant. When some matters are important the court sometimes shrugs of the crime because they are so busy. SO if it is an unimportant anger response that you take someone to court. What good does it actually do?
Tea Party • I don’t understand the fighting and am rather confused by it all. So why must we all fight? The other context that this quote has is this. When a country is oppressed it becomes prejudiced and when a country becomes prejudiced it becomes angry. When a country becomes angry wars start breaking out everywhere. Then they react with things like the Boston Tea Party. The Boston tea party was when in 1766 Bostonian people took tea off a British vessel and threw it in the ocean protesting the Tea tax. I got this information from this website. Not this Tea Party
Context • In the context of what it means I understand it. When Franklin says “The ordaining of laws in favour of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly.” He is speaking of the fact that Britain and America are fighting and that prejudice in Boston where oppression grew meant that the laws changed. Not in Britains favour. Iris has a fabulous post about the fighting. Speaking of the fact that Britain and America fought so often temp Iris said “But, like all parents, Britain was denying the fact that America was growing up. All the naivety and innocent was gone. America wanted independence and freedom. Papa Britain couldn’t do nothin’. And so, America packed its bags and pulled itself together to become the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”I think that Franklin was meaning that when a country becomes oppressed it fights back and when it fights back prejudice enters the world. Prejudice leaves good people out in the cold and laws are upheld differently when prejudice is in the air.
