After Britain imposed new and increasingly invasive taxes on the
American colonies in the 1760s, resistance ripened into
rebellion. But not all Americans saw the wisdom of severing ties
with the mother country. LINDA: All this talk of Independence
and Revolution... Don't forget, John – we’re still subjects of
the British Empire. No people has ever been blessed with greater
liberty than us. Why get Parliament angry and risk it all? JOHN:
Linda, your "British Empire" is nothing more than a band of
corrupt and greedy ministers who give us no voice in government
yet tax us at their whim. The liberty we ought to enjoy as
British subjects is chipped away, bit by bit, with each new tax
and each new law that London hands us. The way they see it, they
have the power to force upon us any law they wish. You call that
"liberty"? LINDA: Let Parliament and the King "see it" anyway
they wish. In truth, we are hardly penniless from paying taxes,
and our ability to live life as we please has hardly been taken
away by the laws