But Rousseau's mature thought also recognized the potential benefits and advantages of society's chains as long as they were in place as protection for the general good as the people declared it. ... The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Was...

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