![]() ![]() ![]() Congress's resolutions of May 10 and 15, 1776, linked them, and so did state instructions that authorized their Congressional delegates to vote not only for Independence and foreign alliances-which they assumed were necessary for survival but impossible without Independence-but also for a more permanent American Confederation.Įven before the issue of Independence had been decided, discussion was under way on what rules and practices should prevail in a self-governing republic. John Adams assumed that Independence and the founding of new governments were so closely tied that they amounted to the same thing. Nowhere was the ending of the old regime an end in itself everywhere it was intimately connected with the founding of new governments that marked a more dramatic departure from the past than what Parliament achieved in 1689. Here she provides a glimpse into "the American mind" and how it elevated what could have been a mere rebellion into the creation of a radical rethinking of government and citizenship that would lead to America's great experiment in democracy. We present, in her honor, an excerpt from her award-winning book American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. The history community lost an esteemed member when Pauline Maier, a scholar of the American Revolution, passed away on August 12, 2013. ![]()
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