To the editor:
The citizens of Marblehead asserted our unwavering commitment to our nation’s founding principles and documents. In doing so at our Town Meeting, we followed in the footsteps of the citizen-led movements that helped ignite the American Revolution — the Committees of Correspondence, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the other civic alliances that challenged tyranny and demanded self-governance.
It was not distant elites who first resisted oppression. It was the engaged citizens in small towns like Marblehead who organized boycotts, protests, demonstrations, and acts of defiance that ultimately gave rise to armed rebellion and American independence. Their courage illustrated that democracy can be defended by ordinary people willing to speak, organize, and act.
Words matter. Publicly affirming our shared constitutional values strengthens the foundation of our republic on its 250th anniversary and reminds future generations what this country was built upon: liberty, civic responsibility, and resistance to authoritarian power.
Marblehead has always taken pride in its history. This resolution does not merely honor that legacy — it continues it.
First in revolution. Still defending freedom today.
Lynn Nadeau
Surf Street
