The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

CHAPTER VII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: THE FORCES IN CONFLICT I know that for such sentiments I am called a rebel, and that such s ...

The Forces in Conflict 139 American Revolution was, after the disturbance at Geneva already recounted, the earliest successful a ...

140 Chapter VII to the defense of property in a kind of Thermidor. Still others, of conservative temperament, sympathizing with ...

The Forces in Conflict 141 the American Revolution only a conservative defense of established rights against British encroachmen ...

142 Chapter VII France. It was, in truth, less revolutionary. The American Revolution was, indeed, a movement to conserve what a ...

The Forces in Conflict 143 a hereditary one; the indentures expired after a few years, and all white persons soon merged into a ...

144 Chapter VII £70,000. In England in 1801 there were probably 10,000 families with an average income of £1,500 a year or more, ...

The Forces in Conflict 145 Aggressive anti- Christianity did not develop in America, to the great good for- tune of the future U ...

146 Chapter VII the “state of nature,” a liberty defined by the remoteness of government, gradually changed, especially after th ...

The Forces in Conflict 147 On the other hand, the rise of such an aristocracy brought class friction and internal tension. “In m ...

148 Chapter VII violence of mobs. Whether the British constitution really assured no taxation without representation was, after ...

The Forces in Conflict 149 With the Declaration of Independence, and the new constitutions which most of the states gave themsel ...

150 Chapter VII Revolutionary government as a step toward constitutional government, com- mittees of public safety, representati ...

The Forces in Conflict 151 wound up in both camps. Debtors had reason to object to British attempts, over the previous half cent ...

152 Chapter VII the values of the British governing class, were more numerous among loyalists than in the general population. On ...

The Forces in Conflict 153 An experience of Colonel Thomas Randolph of Virginia well illustrates the same spread of democracy. R ...

154 Chapter VII of three branches, as in Britain: namely, a lord lieutenant, certain “barons” created for the purpose, and a hou ...

The Forces in Conflict 155 origin of the whole controversy, would willingly pay an agreed- upon share toward military and imperi ...

156 Chapter VII was to invade Ireland, under the American flag, with promises of Irish indepen- dence. North thought the danger ...

The Forces in Conflict 157 forming Parliament, won adherents for their program of cutting down the nefari- ous influence of the ...