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  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
  • Bernard Bailyn Quote - Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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 necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

    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 necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

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

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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 items but over four hundred.

    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 items but over four hundred.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. Download This Image

    In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.

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

    BERNARD BAILYN
  • 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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin’s Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

    The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin’s Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the “left” opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts.

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

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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bernard Bailyn Quote - 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.

    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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