Here is the truth of the matter and a little history lesson. The colonists were not radical revolutionaries or liberals. There actually was no revolution in the literal sense. They were not trying to overthrow the British Crown.
There was actually very little British taxation on the colonies before the renewed hostilities with France. After that old rivalry heated up again, the British started imposing new taxes on the colonies to fund the war. The colonists were understandably upset with this because they had no representation in Parliment. The colonists were fighting for independence to preserve tradition and self government that they had enjoyed for so long without British interference. In this respect, the colonists were actually conservatives in the traditional sense.
2007-07-22
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