Carl N. Degler's A New Kind Of Revolution

The American Revolution in 1775-1783 was caused by the outcome of the French and Indian War in 1754-1763. Where the British fought with the French and had given the colonists a bad impression of the British goal. Due to the heavy debts, the British had no choice, but to tax their colonies.Which angered the colonists and led the people to rebel against their king. Throughout the revolutionary war, the people began to have different thoughts on their political future. There were 3 “Classical” Positions in the 18th century thru late 19 century. The first was the radical position, the thoughts on this was to be an example, of a Utopian society where equality and freedom are the main priority. Second, the liberal position, believed that to maintain …show more content…
To have a strong government was to enforce laws that cannot be broken and break to chaos, but also can include freedom and equality to everyone. Mentioned in the book, “A New Kind of Revolution” written by Carl N. Degler he states, “ Throughout most of American history the doctoring has provided freedom for religious development while keeping politics free of religion. And that, apparently, had been the intention of the Founding Fathers......social side effect of the Revolution, so also was the assertion in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.”(Degler, 123). This quote describes, that the intentions of the founding fathers had a combination of a conservative, radical and liberal goal. Meaning how they had no intention to include religion for political reasons and that there is still freedom for religion. This proves that not only did they have the ideal standards and ideas for different positions, but they all wanted had the same thing for the good for the 13 …show more content…
Stated in the passage, “An anti-colonial tradition of such weight could not fail to leave its stamp upon American attitudes... It was invoked again and again in debates over American foreign policy, and its continuing influence evident in the movement of former colonies like Hawaii and Alaska into statehood and the Philippines into independence..”(Degler, 128). This quote acknowledges the fact that freedom, equality, liberty etc. and the political positions are influencing countries to think and be better. Also, if an individual is influenced by a conservative, radical movement that individual might have different thoughts on the society of what a country should be like. Everyone has their own thoughts and how they are influenced by the world and the opinions of all the