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Identifier: historyofamerica03mcla (find matches)
Title: A history of the American nation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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< UW THE REVOLUTION—1775-1783 161 the men of Amer-ica in the Statesscattered alongthe ocean frontfrom Florida tothe Penobscot.In many respectsit is true thechanges were notmarked; therewas little or nodestruction of theinstitutions whichwere the resultsof colonialgrowth; two ofthe States, RhodeIsland and Con-necticut, went onunder their oldcharters. Andyet it was, as wehave said, of pro-nounced signifi-cance, becausethe new consti-tutions werefounded on thepeople, and rec-ognized the ulti-mate politicalauthority of thepeople. This isa great fact inhuman history;governments wereno longer to be
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The Early Campaigns of the Revolution 162 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION the source of power, but the agents and the servants of thereal governors, the people. As we look back now on the Revolution we see that theimportant fact was not the war, although it involved one-halfof civilized mankind; it was not the separation from GreatBritain, the mere breaking of the political or legal bond, althoughthat was a fact of no small moment. The important fact wasthat in America a nation was founded with a new ideal, andthat certain theories of right were now made real by being as-serted in written documents and by being hardened in institu-tions of government. Some of these fundamental rights, sug-gested in the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Inde-pendence, were even more clearly phrased in other places and most notably in the Vir-ginia Bill of Rights, anoble public document.In these state papersthere appears clearly thenotion that governmentsare of limited authorityand that there are c

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