Search Results for: Sensibility And The American Revolution

In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the ide

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while

Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks

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