Liberty Chronicles, Ep. 24; Court & County in the First British Empire
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2017-10-10

The colonists governed themselves and had little need for imperial management; colonists all over disparaged the idea of monarchy and Tom Paine smashed it to pieces; the world’s most powerful state lost its most vigorous appendages, and the settlers expanded all sorts of civil rights to new cohorts. We remember the triumphant victory of a new nation-state, and the gains made by some toward exercising a greater control over that state; but revolution bred counter-revolution.

“The Indictment and Trial of Sir Richard Rum”
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