The United States of America is considered one of the most “free” country in the world to outsiders. However, these results is a collective endeavor from the past, with many revisions to the laws, changes to the government and the substitution of numerous politicians. Equally important, unjust laws and corrupt bureaucrats can often times lead to civil disobedience or even a revolution. That being said, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine and Henry David Thoreau are all instrumental architects to early U.S. politics that would eventually shape the political culture of civil disobedience. In short, Samuel Adams was a key figure in the American revolution who organized important oppositions to Great Britain. As a leader of the Sons of Liberty, Adams was the mastermind behind an infamous riot against the British Stamp Act known as the Boston Tea Party. In his writing “The Rights of the Colonists”, Adams promotes the natural rights of the colonists as men, “All men have a right to...in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another ” (The Rights of the Colonists). In other words, Adam believes men have the natural rights to oppose the government they belong to if the government is performing injustice. Therefore, it is the government’s responsibility to respect the man’s need and perform the necessity to please the man. Moreover, Adams suggests that the man “voluntarily” places himself in a society to be governed by the