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On July 4 we came together and celebrated our democratic republic’s 244th birthday. Viewing this hallmark occasion, it is advantageous for us to review a small event that has led to the growth of our great USA.

Activism is in our nation’s bone marrow and has led to our natural, inalienable rights. But the acts didn’t come from nothing. Rather, they came about because our founding fathers demanded, and won, the rights of those governed to peaceably assemble in order to petition their leaders for their redresses.

We inherited our DNA for rectifying our grievances from our colonial par...