“The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.” MeanPowerfulCasesSubjectsKingsAuthorityMost PowerfulParliamentPresentationCokePrecedent Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.” GrowingAuthorityAreasHeatSparksDefiance Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.” MayStatesFeltVirtueAuthorityWeaknessCourtSimplicityLondonReformMannersIsolationEnlightenedDefectsRenewalMultiplicitySalons Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
