“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a series of upheavals in seventeenth-century England—the Civil War, the exclusion crisis of 1679–81, and the Glorious Revolution of… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“If the older churches often found themselves unable to cope with growth and mobility, the newer sects—especially the Separates and the Baptists—did not. Nor… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed,… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“No political system ever perfectly expresses the needs of its society. No society in the English colonies constructed political arrangements completely faithful to itself.” — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“the victims chosen by the mobs at the time of the Stamp Act were struck not simply because they supported or were presumed to… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“Every newspaper report of Virginia’s action made events in Virginia sound more extravagant than they were. The Burgesses had passed four resolves; Maryland printed… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a series of… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
