• The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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1. inheritances
2. seventeenth
3. classical
4. antiquity
5. reshaped
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