“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.” YearsPoliticalLiteratureBeliefBehindsTheorySceneUltimateLaysRevolutionaryExplanationDispositionControversy Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“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.” PoliticalSocialConstitutionCrisisFinalsCorruptionEvidentColonists Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.” WorldFirstsIdeasWarPoliticalCenturyRevolutionCurrentsCivil WarSovereigntyCanonEnglish Speaking Author:Bernard Bailyn
