Oh, I wish I had time to answer this. I've got a dozen pieces of evidence to show you the connections between events and people that led up to the US Revolution.
Since I don't have time, i'll get straight to it. Vattel put the idea of revolution in the heads of the Colonists. It was *HIS* idea to create a Republic.
According to John Adams, it was William Otis that sparked the revolution. Otis belonged to a social club of Boston lawyers who debated philosophy. He got his hands on a copy of Vattel's book back in 1764, and it inspired him to push for revolution. Here's an excerpt from one of his pamphlets that he was handing out at the time.
Here is what Vattel wrote in 1758:
Finally, several sovereign and independent states may unite themselves together by a perpetual confederacy, without ceasing to be, each individually, a perfect state. They will together constitute a federal republic: their joint deliberations will not impair the sovereignty of each member, though they may, in certain respects, put some restraint on the exercise of it, in virtue of voluntary engagements. A person does not cease to be free and independent, when he is obliged to fulfil engagements which he has voluntarily contracted.
Which resulted in this: (Precursor to the US Constitution.)
Vattel put the idea into their heads. And why not? Switzerland had been a Republic since 1307. It was the ONLY Republic in the World at the time.
That's all I have time for.