Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 132.
“The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138.
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