Opposition To The American Revolution
The opposition will likely argue that because the colonies had already been independent before England began to interfere in its matters again, the American Revolution was not truly revolutionary. Furthermore, the American Revolution did not “overthrow” England if it had already been independent for nearly a century; instead, the colonies were just fighting to return to the status quo they enjoyed before. Unlike the French or Bolshevik Revolution, the outcomes of the American Revolution did not shake the world with any ultra-radical or new doctrines. Most of the doctrines the Revolution adopted had already existed and was simply “borrowed” for the colonists’ use from the Enlightenment. On top of that, slavery in England was abolished way before