To: SoConPubbie; MeganC; Sequoyah101
Sure there were components of Mob Rule in the run-up to the Revolutionary War, however, the founders did everything they could to reason with the British ruling class to accept their demands.
With each success failure in convincing the British to allow the level of self-rule they desired, or some form of representative government, the founders took the next Ordered step necessary, whether writing the Bill of Rights, a Constitutional Convention, Writing the US Consitution, declaring independence.
But it definitely was an ordered process.
12 posted on
12/19/2013 4:26:10 PM PST by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
“But it was definitely an ordered process.”
Not so sure the brits at the time would agree. Nor even the Americans. It was quite a nasty revolution at times and the losers were summarily ejected.
History is written by the victors.
23 posted on
12/19/2013 5:34:17 PM PST by
RKBA Democrat
(Getting some small say in who will get to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
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