Bernard Bailyn - Social Quotes

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

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