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The poorest people here if they have been any time in the country, makes shift to get Land of their own either by taking up or Buying.

"Ninety-nine parts out of one hundred of mankind, are ever inclined to live at peace, and cultivate a good understanding with each other.'' Only members of "the remaining small part"'—those whose "considerable abilities'' were "joined to an intriguing disposition''—were "the real authors, advisers, and perpetuators of wars, treasons, and those other violences, which have, in all ages, more or less disgraced the.. Con

It challenged the primary assumptions and practices of monarchy—its hierarchy, its inequality, its devotion to kinship, its patriarchy, its patronage, and its dependency. It offered new conceptions of the individual, the family, the state, and the individual's relationship to the family, the state, and other individuals. Indeed, republicanism offered nothing less than new ways of organizing society.

only fundamentally altered the character of American society but decisively affected the course of subsequent history.

each other—then the American Revolution was not conservative at all; on the contrary: it was as radical and as revolutionary as any in history. Of course, the American Revolution was very different from other revolutions. But it was no less radical and no less social for being different. In fact, it was one of the greatest revolutions the world has known, a momentous upheaval that not only...