236 years ago today, the First Continental Congress was convened at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, PA. Twelve of thirteen colonies were represented (no one came from Georgia) and all wanted the problems raised by the Coercive Acts resolved in the fastest manner possible. Pennsylvania representative Joseph Galloway proposed the Plan of Union, which would have called for an American legislature and an executive of the Crown to determine the course of colonial rule in North America.
This "Plan" missed its intended goal by only ONE vote... just ONE vote... and we know now that it was what Parliament wanted to see come from the colonies, so we can assume it would have passed. As it stood... the petition for the redress of grievances by the colonies to the Crown gained nothing, and the Second Congress convened in 1775, and would eventually declare the independence of the United States of America and conduct the Revolutionary War to secure that independence.
One vote... just one vote by a man no one even remembers today, kept the only course of action that might have kept the North American people within the British Empire from coming to be.
And there are people today that question just how influential our elected Senators and Representatives are today? Please...
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