"An excess of governmental authority provoked the revolution that began in 1775; a deficit of it led to the writing of the Constitution. The Founders, in short, had learned from experience that either too much authority or too little could be fatal to liberty."
This is not my view of the situation back then, factually, at all.
In this connection, I follow scholars who argue that a lack of authority and political structure had precipitated opportunities for colonial self interest through rebellion. Of course they had an ideology, largely radical Whig, to conform to this desire.
Professor Allison at Suffolk, follows a long line of these scholars, and does teaching company lectures on this subject.
A deficit of authority, and of overall structure, of rather long standing, had made the rebellion, not revolution, possible.
It was not a revolution, because, by definition, nothing whatsoever much, structurally, happened in Britain as a result of the colonial rebellion.
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