... in place of traditional monarchic society, drastically altered the relationship between elites and their social inferiors and introduced a sequence of major reforms"4 Some may argue that this is a gross overstatement. The American Revolution was not a great social revolution like that in France 1789 or in Russia 1917. " Principles announced in the declaration of independence was not fully implemented, American republicanism was not synonymous with radical equalitarianism and the Unites States did not immediately become a democratic society"5 While the War of Independence continued the American radicals were helping to create a new America. 'The American Patriots believed that all governments exist for the benefit of the governed. When a government violated peoples fundamental rights they had to overthrow it'6 Thomas Paines Common sense published in 1776 stated that "everything that is right or natural pleads for separation....'its time to part'" " we have it in our power ...

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