That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, e….

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of tho….

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution..

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and….

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them..

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists..

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets..

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or ri….

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so….

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went..

Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts….

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , ther….

Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was l….

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by se….

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Co….

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play..

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional righ….

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessa….

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every polit….

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the Eng….

It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the bat….