• In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. by : Bernard Bailyn

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