The Unknown American Revolution Summary
Contemporary American history will make one believe that American history has its beginning in the early colonies with a connection to the British crown. This contemporary history then states that because of our hatred of the Crown and its taxation without representation, we decided to create a brand new country, all without any major domestic turmoil. That is by far not the case, in contrast, according to many historians it is a surprise that America turned out the way it did. America was founded in a time of social unrest brought upon by the revolution and class conflict that was present before the war, and was multiplied ten-fold in the new formed country. This conflict during the construction of our Constitution and the subsequent Bill
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To this day, the public remembers the revolution mostly in its enshrined mythic form. This is peculiar in a democratic society because the sacralized story of the founding fathers…mostly concerns the uppermost slice of American revolutionary society. That is what has lodge in other minds, and this is the fable that millions of people in other countries know about the American Revolution.” With this oversimplification that has seeped in the collective consciousness of the American psyche we forget that the framers wanted elite people of American society as the exclusive gubernatorial practices. There are sentiments of the founding fathers that are argued heavily by historian Jack Rakove that , he states, “No doubt many Federalists supported [The Constitution] because they believed it would enable a better class of leaders…but it is difficult to demonstrate that this was either the Constitution itself mandated or the framers itself.” He is stating that framers were not an elite because they wanted the republic to be open to any American. The Constitution he argues could not have been written by elite framers but rather framers that felt a connection to the commoners below them and therefore were commoner like in their
To this day, the public remembers the revolution mostly in its enshrined mythic form. This is peculiar in a democratic society because the sacralized story of the founding fathers…mostly concerns the uppermost slice of American revolutionary society. That is what has lodge in other minds, and this is the fable that millions of people in other countries know about the American Revolution.” With this oversimplification that has seeped in the collective consciousness of the American psyche we forget that the framers wanted elite people of American society as the exclusive gubernatorial practices. There are sentiments of the founding fathers that are argued heavily by historian Jack Rakove that , he states, “No doubt many Federalists supported [The Constitution] because they believed it would enable a better class of leaders…but it is difficult to demonstrate that this was either the Constitution itself mandated or the framers itself.” He is stating that framers were not an elite because they wanted the republic to be open to any American. The Constitution he argues could not have been written by elite framers but rather framers that felt a connection to the commoners below them and therefore were commoner like in their