Revolutionary War Research Paper

Despite having no power, army, or plan, the British colonies’ took their ideas and morals of freedom and just government onto the battlefield against the most powerful country, in which would transpire the most significant conflict of American history and cement the very foundation of American independence. The Revolutionary War was an armed clash that permanently terminated the political ties between the infuriated American colonies of North America and their homeland of Great Britain. Consisting of many battles that were pinned along North America’s eastern coast, it was the American colonists’ and resentment of British rule that led to the war, lasting between the years 1775 AD to 1783 AD. While as to what ignited the colonists’ abhorrence …show more content…
So on June 19, 1215 AD, the infuriated noblemen wrote the Magna Carta, a document that had stated to validate and establish specific rights to the barons, and coerced King John to sign the contract; and in return, the nobles would avow their loyalty to . Directly affirmed from the Magna Carta, the nobles believed that “We also granted all freemen of our kingdom, for us and for our heirs forever all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever.” This quote alludes to the reason why the nobles wrote the Magna Carta by saying that all Englishmen undeniably possessed certain rights and privileges that the ruler could not confiscates, thus supporting that the Magna Carta protected the …show more content…
One philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau incorportates in his work, The Social Contract, that “[government] is an intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign to keep them in touch with each other. It is charged with executing the laws and maintaining both civil and political liberty.... The only will dominating government ... should be the general will or the law…As soon as [government] attempts to let any act come from itself completely independently, it starts to lose its intermediary role.” This quote can be described as that the government is the conversation between the people and ruler and with a purpose of preserving the freedom of the people. But when the government begins to distinguish itself individually by not considering the people or passing illegitimate laws, then they are acting against their specific and basic purpose. This concept became a crucial concept for other colonists because they built from this ethic, in which the government should only serve the people, to question the validation of the monarchy. If the government could not live up to its correct function, then it was corruptly misusing it power. This was how