my first thought is about the present abilities thomas paine speaks of in his writings. one of his calls for independence is that while the colonies are in their youth, this is the perfect time since strong indiviual colonies have not yet developed to diminish the possibility of a union later. my question is, had great britian bowed to the demands of the colonies, would this have postponed the revolution long enough that it would have never happened? my own thought is that it would have eventually happened but under completely different circumstances. i think the union of some might of still have happened but that you would have had numerous small coutries much like europe. in reality his prediction was true seeing as around 80 years later we had the civil war which showed the fragility of the union.
while reading the declaration of independce one part in particular jumped out at me. a few lines spoke of how a people, when under a government that no longer serves them, should and have the right to throw off their current governing body and start a new one. my question is, if everyone becomes frustrated and fed up with our current government today, what would be the new one be?
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I think the revolution would still have happened. The colonies would eventually decide they obviously dont need GB and they could govern themselves. When GB does not allow this, there's your revolutionary war. I agree that it may have been totally different, don't know about the several small countries though. Are you saying that after we won the war there would have been several small countries because each wanted a different government? I could see maybe two countries- north and south.
Giving freedom to the colonies in their youth would passsify the colonies for a while until they were more developed. While the colonies are young they have less to fight about; as the colonies expand and develop there are more issues to fight over and thus more reason for war. Eventually the colonies would have headed towards a revolutionary war. If our government was overthrown today, it would be run more by the common man and less by the rich politician and the power that supports the wealthy.
I think few things would've warranted overthrowing the government, as the Declaration of Independence describes. If such a thing arose, I think the leaders of the country would've been able to handle it for many years, but if it were to happen later, the 'new government' probably would've had even less governmental power. This would've crippled the US for years and obviously America wouldn't have such great morale, and we probably wouldn't be as strong of a powerhouse today.
I would have to agree with the previous comments.
I think that any civil war or revolution has happened throughout history for a reason. Or in most instances a sequence of events/reasonS. The American Revolution, and indeed a REVOLUTION, was about a change of living and thought...not just a monetary conflict over taxes(although of course having its own impact) but the precedence of democracy was iniitiated and set forth. With such strong ideology backing the revolution, it is hard to believe that it was not inevitable. So yes, it was bound to have happened.
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