That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.--Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets and editorials and sermons was not "safety" or "taxes" or "peace"; it was "freedom." And two intolerable acts of Parliament assaulting freedom broke the bonds with the mother country irreparably, precipitating the Revolution.The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which was enforced by British soldiers, who used general warrants issued...