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American history is full of examples of patriotic dissent, from the Founding Fathers to the modern day:

American history is full of examples of patriotic dissent, from the Founding Fathers to the modern day:

#[[George Washington]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and the other leaders of their generation risked being called traitors and unpatriotic Englishmen to articulate a concept of ''American'' identity.  Aside from facing strong opposition from the British, the [[Founding Fathers]] like Washington and Jefferson faced opposition from their fellow colonists, some of whom considered themselves to be Englishmen above all else.

#[[George Washington]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and the other leaders of their generation risked being called traitors and unpatriotic Englishmen to articulate a concept of ''American'' identity.  Aside from facing strong opposition from the British, the [[Founding Fathers]] like Washington and Jefferson faced opposition from their fellow colonists, some of whom considered themselves to be Englishmen above all else.

#[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] lobbied for American entry into [[World War II]], despite America's conception of itself, then, as an isolationist nation untroubled by "dying [[Europe]]."  In doing so, Roosevelt went against his countrymen's perception of their nation, and fought for good against the [[Nazi]] regime.

[[File:Warplan.jpg|thumb|400px|Wheeler leaks top sectret US war plan three days before Pearl Harbor]]

 

# In early December 1941 a military officer gave Senator [[Burton K. Wheeler]] a copy of the top secret American war plan for fighting Germany, and Wheeler gave it to the ''Chicago Tribune'', which published the secrets in a desperate effort to weaken the American military so much that Roosevelt would avoid war. Pearl Harbor came a few days later and Wheeler went quiet.

 

 

[[category:Political Terms]]

[[category:Political Terms]]