The American Revolution should be seen as radical because it transformed a monarchial society into a republic and allowed colonists to separate away from the loyalists making America an independent country who could govern themselves. ... Nash, he said colonists "looked toward a redistribution of political, social, and religious power; the discarding of old institutions and the creation of new ones; the overthrowing of ingrained patterns of conservative, elitist thought; the leveling of society so that top and bottom were not widely separated" and more. ... Thomas Paine, in his pa...

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"And here we have the plain difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which however some men have confounded, are as far distant as a state of peace, goodwill, mutual assistance, and preservation; and a state of enmity, malice, violence, and mutual destruction are one from another."" ... So one can understand how each philosopher's distinct idea of man's place in the state of nature leads him to his separate conception of the proper role of sovereignty in society. ... And the objective eye would look past the Fourth of July brouhaha and note that indeed very little...

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