### March 19 On March 19, 1765, I decided to take a stand against the oppressive British government. I wrote my first political essay at age 19 titled “A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress”, in which I argued for the Stamp Act, which required all legal materials to be printed on special stamped paper bought from the British government. Little did I know that this would be the start of my path to becoming one of the Founding Fathers of the United States!