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December 2008 
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ...
Posted on Jul 3rd, 2008
by 
Michael
Michael
was NOT a social but a political one ...
said John Brewer in his introduction to the chapter entitled "Ideas of Revolution" in the book which accompanied the "1776" exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, during 1976.
The raison d'etre of the exhibition was to tell - The British Story of the American Revolution.
John Brewer went on to say ...
" IT WAS NOT intended to bring a new class to power, and many of its leading ideals were neither novel nor socially subversive. Its chief concern was with individuals' rights and the political, not social, mechanisms designed to preserve them. But what was distinctive and revolutionary was the way in which familiar ideas were transformed from pious ideals into political action and European theories adapted to special, American conditions.
The Declaration of Independence began the process which only ended with the American constitution of 1787. It was a watershed in the conflict between the British Government and the American colonies. On the one hand the bulk of its text looks back, surveying and recapitulating American grievances against George III and his ministers; on the other, it looks forward, laying down in the bold clear prose of Thomas Jefferson's opening paragraphs, the principles on which any future American government would be based: the equality of men and the existence of 'inalienable Rights'. "
AS a NEW DAWN approaches for American politics, IT WOULD INDEED BE APPROPRIATE that the principle of inalienable rights be extended by the USA, as leader of the NOW GLOBAL COMMUNITY, to OUR SPECIES as a WHOLE.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to one & ALL.
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