Bernard Bailyn
American historian, author, and academic
Lived from: 1922 - 2020
Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary)
Born: 9 september 1922 Died: 7 august 2020
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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 kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218― Bernard Bailyn -
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p― Bernard Bailyn -
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1― Bernard Bailyn
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