https://freerepublic.com/tag/bostonrevolt/ en-us Fri, 26 May 2006 16:26:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1638794/posts THE GREAT DIVIDE Ever since its first European settlements, in the early 1600s, America developed as two completely different republics. We have been politically divided ever since, and will always remain so. This is because our two founding republican traditions are both opposite and irreconcilable. On one side of the divide were the agrarian republicans like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, with their foundation stones of equal creation, personal freedom, and the inalienable rights of every citizen. Theirs was a republic of innate virtue, where crime and vice were nothing... Bernard Levine Website https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1638794/posts#comment Fri, 26 May 2006 16:26:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4385557/posts 80 years before Lexington and Concord, before the founding fathers were even children, Americans used events in the mother country to engineer a little remembered revolution that transformed the colonies and helped to define the nation we know today. Forgotten Revolution: The 1689 Boston Revolt | 16:32 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 1.64M subscribers | 4,480 views | June 26, 2026 YouTube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4385557/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:07:16 GMT