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  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
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The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

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    Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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 English Civil War, in the early 1640’s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

    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 English Civil War, in the early 1640’s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

    It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament’s constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

    What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament’s constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

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

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - In England the practice of “virtual” representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

    In England the practice of “virtual” representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

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    Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

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

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

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

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    Emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the “country” mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.

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    The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

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