"--- historians now realize that the American Revolution itself was not only ideological but also the result of devotion to the creed and the institutions of libertarianism.
The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties committed by the imperial British government.
Dumb_Ox:
I must object to the depiction of America as an ideological nation with a set creed. If this is so, then I and many others are apostates.
We have a "set creed".. -- What else can our Constitution/Bill of Rights be called?
-- With what in this creed would you dissent?
"Articles of peace," rather than "articles of faith." They are imperfect documents, though much better than many other countries' constitutions, written and unwritten. If we elevate these documents to near-scriptural levels, we're conserving mistakes along with successes.