Did American founders fully agree with the English history?
Comments: Michael Barone’s ‘Our 1st Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers’ is an excellent account of the 17th century English political history. Much of it is known and taught to the British students and were taught in erstwhile British overseas colonies. Consequently, English history had a mesmerizing appeal ewhere. Little wonder that this would be more so for the American founding fathers almost all of whom had close connection with their motherland and who had completed their education in England. Dr. Barone’s thesis that the bloodless Glorious Revolution was the pioneer in triggering off the casualty-ridden and the sanguinary American Revolution is as partially correct as the claim that the bloody French Revolution drew its inspiration from the American Revolution. While it is a widely held consensus that the Amerian Revolution owed a lot to that English revolution, the paradox is that the main centerpiece of that revolution- the reli
