The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.


Chapter V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 162. - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967)

Bernard Bailyn Quotes

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in...

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in...

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in...

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in...