Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives a revised edition of the brochure entitled ‘‘How Our Laws Are Made’’ shall be printed: "The framers of our Constitution created a strong federal government resting on the concept of "separation of powers"." PR

John Parker, Commander of the Minute Men: The morning had come just after Paul Revere's midnight warning. Captain John Parker had taken command of the few score who had turned out on Lexington Green. As daylight approached, a scout with the militia by the name of Thaddeus Bowman had come thundering over the hill from the direction of Cambridge. When Bowman checked in with Parker, he reported that not only were the British regulars approaching Lexington, they were almost 1,000 strong and only a few miles away. They would arrive in less than an hour.

Parker had the militia line up smartly in a wide, double rank (this would give the illusion of being more than they were). Looking off in the distance, Parker noticed that some of the town's villagers had gathered at the church, the Buckman Tavern, and off to his right and to the rear, a cluster of them watched from behind the shield of a granite and stone fence. "Lay down your arms, you damned rebels!" Then, suddenly, out of the cacophony of yelling and troop movement came an unmistakable sound ---- a shot!

From behind a stone wall a shot rang out -- no one has ever discovered who first fired "the shot heard 'round the world".

So started the first battle in the American Revolutionary War.

“Where an appeal to the law and constituted judges lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice and barefaced wrestling of the laws, to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men or party of men, there it is hard to imagine anything but a state of war. For whenever violence is used and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however colored with the name, pretences, or forms of law.” John Locke, The Second Treatise On Government (1691) at III:20.