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Goodloe, Daniel R.

 
9781440033537: The Birth of the Republic (Classic Reprint)
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ISBN 10: 1440033536 ISBN 13: 9781440033537
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2018

Sinopsis

Unlock the voices that built a nation.

This collection of primary documents and debates reveals how early American leaders argued, tested ideas, and charted a path to independence and a new government.

Drawing from newspapers, resolutions, letters, and official acts, the book presents the raw material of history. It invites readers to witness the conversations, disagreements, and turning points that shaped the birth of the United States. Through concise selections, you’ll see how ordinary and famous figures framed demands for rights, liberty, and constitutional limits.

It’s a concise, document-focused look at a pivotal era, helping readers connect the ideas to the events that followed. The edition compiles key moments from the 1760s to the 1780s, offering context while preserving the original voices.

  • Primary selections that show the push for rights and representation.
  • Resolutions, debates, and notices from various colonies and towns.
  • Context that clarifies how discussions evolved into a national framework.
  • A accessible pathway to understanding the roots of American constitutional thought.

Ideal for readers of American history, politics, and those exploring how democratic ideas formed in a turbulent era.

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Reseña del editor

Excerpt from The Birth of the Republic: Compiled From the National and Colonial Histories and Historical Collections, From the American Archives and From Memoirs, and From the Journals and Proceedings of the British Parliament

But the objection to this latter statement is that the haz ards were too great to be encountered by demagogues, for the sake of office. Demagogues, by their very nature, as the term implies, are a pliant, accommodating race; and are prone to yield to circumstances, rather than conquer them. It has been well said that the same elements of character which constitute the demagogues in a popular government enter into and make up the courtier under a monarchy. The men who led our armies to victory during the Revolution, and who framed our free constitutions and laws, were, many of them, foremost in the esteem of the rulers of Great Britain before they thought of resistance. All the older officers of the army had served with honor under the King, and their names were held in high respect at court. Franklin was Postmaster-general of the Colonies; and hundreds besides him were in high favor as civilians. They had therefore no occasion to revolt and set up a new form of government in order to secure the offices. By their heroic self-sacrifice, by their courage and perseverance in what for years seemed an almost hopeless enterprise, and by the wisdom displayed on the tented field and in the council, they gained, among friends and foes the world over, the highest reputation for virtue. The idea of such men being actuated by a low ambi tion to secure places for themselves is therefore simply pre posterons.

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American Colonies were destined to become independent of Great Britain, and that the occurrence of the event was only a question of time, was foreseen nearly a century before it came to pass. Lord Mansfield, in his speech in the House of Lords, on the Duke of Grafton smo tion for an address to the King, November 15, 1775, makes this fact clear by the following statement, which at the same time exhibits the shop-keeping narrowness and illiberality of his own mind. He says: The bad consequences of planting Northern Colonies were early predicted. Sir Josiah Child foretold, before the Revolution the English Revolution of 1688- 89, that they would, in the end, prove our rivals in power, commerce, and manufactures. Davenant, adopting the same ideas, foresaw what has since happened: he foresaw that, whenever Amer ica found herself of sufficient strength to contend with the mother-country, she would endeavor to form herself into a separate and independent State. This has been the constant object of New England almost from her earliest in fancy. Their struggles in the reign of King William compelled that Prince to recall their former charter and give them a new one, and, towards the conclusion of his reigpn, to get an act passed that no law enacted in the Colonies should be valid, if contrary to any law at the time existing in England. Those disputes scarce subsided from that day to this. I remember, in 1733, Mr. Talbot (after wards counsellor) proposed a set of Resolutions, in the House of Commons, in which the nature of the disputes then subsisting were directly pointed at, and similar doc trines to those maintained at present by the British Parlia ment fully asserted. This citation from the speech of Lord Mansfield demonstrates the truth that a man may be a great lawyer, and at the same time be a very narrow-minded statesman that he may be profoundly learned in th
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Forgotten Books
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2018
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ISBN 10 
1440033536
ISBN 13 
9781440033537
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