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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share 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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
