What might be fascinating to many is that he seeks to explain to American readers that the values that are “American” are really British ones that the colonists took to their hearts and made real. Great British thinkers like Edmund Burke and the writers of the Magna Carta directly led to the ideals encompassed in the Constitution and founding documents. He clearly makes a link between the American revolution and that of the English civil war.
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HA HA HA!
Thank You for posting!!
Steve
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People tend to think of them as American ideas because, while admittedly those ideas are on life support in the States and fading rapidly, sadly those ideas are long dead in Britain, and vultures have picked the corpse clean.
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