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How a Few New Ideas Caused an Entire Group of People to Turn on Their Country

July 11, 2016 | Post

Much like us today, American colonists thought of themselves as a free people. They viewed governance through a lens called Radical Whig Theory, a political ideology stating that individuals within a free society must jealously guard their liberty and be wary of any government encroachment. The theory holds that freedom is hard to keep, and […]