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Bernard Bailyn is an American historian renowned for his research on early American history. His works delve into the social, political, and cultural dynamics of the American Revolution and the colonial period.

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“That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.”

Political Social Constitution Crisis Finals Corruption Evident Colonists

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.”

Facts Liberty Importance Corruption Conspiracy Risen Colonists

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.”

Long Ideas Facts Moral Conditions Creating Sanctions Chaotic Colonists

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

Social Century Foundation Categories Inheritance Antiquity Colonists

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1922
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 27

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The Ideological Origins of the American RevolutionRelated source material

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary EditionRelated source material

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