The English Foundation of the American Revolution
Added: (Mon Feb 16 2004)
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The concept of republic (public good, common weal, public affairs) was as
much a part of colonial heritage as colonial charters and the Magna Carta. There was no romantic extrapolation to applying res publica (republic), to the Commonwealth of England “its most exact English equivalent was commonwealth by which was meant, as Edmund Pendleton suggested, a state belonging to the whole people rather than the crown."
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 1969, 55-56.
The ancestral republican heritage that was so successfully discarded by the Federalists in the 1790's, forever altered the virtue and the intent of the American Revolution. What ought to be the federal government's motivation in its duty and obligation?
After much delay a new vision and revision of American history is available. The Never Realized Republic: An Analysis of Capitalism's Impact Upon Republican Virtue and the Federal Constitution is available. Visit the website and read the Preface:
http://republicanvirtue.50megs.com/