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To: Kaslin

It really wasn’t a revolution. The colonies were not trying to start a new govenrnment. They merely wanted to maintain the self-government they had enjoyed for the previous 150 or so years. Opposite of other revolutions.


11 posted on 07/04/2017 7:16:35 AM PDT by canalabamian
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To: canalabamian

“It really wasn’t a revolution. The colonies were not trying to start a new government. They merely wanted to maintain the self-government they had enjoyed for the previous 150 or so years. Opposite of other revolutions.”

My thots too.
We were reasserting the rights enjoyed for years .
Rights king Geo was trying to usurp.


13 posted on 07/04/2017 7:22:47 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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