“What if they had a law and nobody came (we are the revolutionaries now)”
Well, that is exactly what happened just before the Roman and Soviet empires fell.
Franklin testimony on the stamp act.
He warned the house of commons that they wouldn’t find guns but they might just create a revolution.
>>Q. Can any thing less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?
—A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.
Q. Why may it not?
—A. Suppose a military force sent into America, they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chuses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.