“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 did churches swept by the revival and its message that the experience of the Spirit, the New Birth, constituted true religion. For the Awakening recalled a generation to the standards of reformed Protestantism, which had prevailed… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share
“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
