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Thread #123266   Message #2712470
Posted By: robomatic
30-Aug-09 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
Subject: RE: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
The "American Revolution" is more properly understood as:

The War For Independence. The colonial population was not really divided in half. A rough guestimate it was in thirds: One for Independence, One for the Crown, One didn't really care.

A great many of the Loyalists (to the Crown) wound up losing their property and going to Canada. Canada had at the time a French population and an English administration. Sorting out the new English speaking population among the older French speaking populace had major ramifications which remain with us.

In the above respects there are some parallels with the division of Palestine into Israel, Jordan, and the territories.

There was an American Revolution. It is called The Constitution. In creating a strong civilian executive, three part division of powers, bicameral legislature, incorporating this with a written document with broad rights guaranteed to the people, a true revolutionary format of government was laid down. There was no guarantee that it would survive, and it was a near thing in fact.