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One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Philosophy of the American Revolution by Morton White
Republicanism And The Law Of Inheritance In The American Revolutionary Era, Stanley N. Katz
Republicanism And The Law Of Inheritance In The American Revolutionary Era, Stanley N. Katz
Michigan Law Review
This Article deals with the history of the law of inheritance during the era of the American Revolution, but its focus is actually more general, for it ultimately seeks to determine what sort of revolution we experienced. For the historian the problem is quite familiar, but a few observations seem pertinent. It is at least possible to argue that our colonial forefathers were not waging a revolution at all. Rather, one might say they were fighting what we should now call a colonial war of independence in which the overriding issue was "home rule." On this hypothesis, the main slogan …