The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that … - Bernard Bailyn

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Bernard Bailyn

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.

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