Tag: Zealotry

Continued from yesterday. Read A to Z first. M is for mobilization.  Revolutionary authorities became masters of mobilizing resources at a local level to fight the war.  The war debts for the Continental Congress and the various states were massive, but it is impressive just how many men the revolutionaries managed to put into the […]

One of the great ideals of the American Revolution was the notion that political authority derives from the will of the governed.  Of the key principles expressed by American revolutionaries, popular sovereignty – the idea that government should be an expression of the collective will and aspirations of the people – was paramount.  What is […]