The first of which was a study of Pre-Revolution politics in the American colonies. ... This was coupled with a separate undertaking in the study of the "ideological origins of the Revolution". The result of these two separate interpretations was a brief statement of explanation dealing with the ideological, based on the study of Revolutionary writings and their antecedents, and the political, defined as the history of the ways men have used the institutions of government and the struggles for authority. ... (p 20) This theory of separate functioning branches of government was what preserved l...

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