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Morning everyone. Patrick Henry was an orator and politician who led the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. Have you ever heard someone speak so passionately that the speech moved you to do something? Even as a young man, Patrick Henry had that kind of influence in the American Colonies. A HYPERLINK /wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States \o Founding Fathers of the United States Founding Father, he served as the HYPERLINK /wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Virginia \o List of Governors of Virginia first and sixth post-colonial HYPERLINK /wiki/Governor_of_Virginia \o Governor of Virginia Governor of Virginia. Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and is well remembered for his HYPERLINK /wiki/Give_me_Liberty,_or_give_me_Death! \o Give me Liberty, or give me Death! Give me Liberty, or give me Death! speech. Along with HYPERLINK /wiki/Samuel_Adams \o Samuel Adams Samuel Adams and HYPERLINK /wiki/Thomas_Paine \o Thomas Paine Thomas Paine, he is remembered as one of the most influential exponents of HYPERLINK /wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States \o Republicanism in the United States Republicanism, promoters of the American Revolution and Independence, especially in his denunciations of corruption in government officials and his defense of historic rights. After the Revolution, Henry was a leader of the HYPERLINK /wiki/Anti-Federalism \o Anti-Federalism anti-federalists in Virginia who opposed the HYPERLINK /wiki/United_States_Constitution \o United States Constitution United States Constitution, fearing that it endangered the rights of the States, as well as the freedoms of individuals. Patrick Henry was one of the leading lights of the American Revolution, a voice that would not be silenced until Americans were free and could govern themselves. He was born in 1736, in Hanover County, He made a name for himself in winning the famed Parsons Cause, during which he argued that a king who would veto a law passed by a locally elected