In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of tho… - Bernard Bailyn
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of tho…
- Bernard Bailyn
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… - Bernard Bailyn
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…
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts… - Bernard Bailyn
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts…
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by se… - Bernard Bailyn
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by se…
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… - Bernard Bailyn
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…
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. - Bernard Bailyn
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Co… - Bernard Bailyn
The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Co…
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , ther… - Bernard Bailyn
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , ther…
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional righ… - Bernard Bailyn
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional righ…
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