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''Good God, sir, was that fair?'' }}
''[[1776]]'' is the name of both a 1969 Broadway play and its 1972 film adaptation, featuring [[William Daniels]] of ''[[Knight Rider]]'', ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' and ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' fame in the role that made him a star. It's a mostly accurate depiction of the hurdles and loopholes that the Founding Fathers went through in order to separate from Great Britain... well, once you take out the all-singing, all-dancing part, it is, anyway.
Daniels plays [[John Adams]] (later the first-ever Vice President), a Boston revolutionary who spearheads the American effort to turn from a British Crown Colony into its own nation. All sorts of reasons are brought up for this, including taxation sans representation and the alienation that the Atlantic Ocean brings. With the help of Yoda-esque [[Ben Franklin]] and a reluctant [[Thomas Jefferson]], who is so homesick he can barely write the Declaration of Independence, he puts forth these reasons... which are almost immediately savaged. It takes a minor miracle just to get the whole thing to a point where it can be voted on, much less ratified -- ''that'' would require unanimity.
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