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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1114532" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>You are correct. I quote from "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn: "Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful...They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits and political power from favorites of the British Empire. ...they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new privileged leadership...They created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times." In other words what occurred in the colonies was not so much a "revolution" where the masses on the bottom became the owners of society. No, it was more a rebellion by the colonists lead by the colonial elite to replace a british ruling elite with an american ruling elite.</p><p></p><p>Also look up Charles Beard's "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the Unitesd States". He believed that the wealthy must in their own interest either control the government directly or at least control the laws by which govt operates. His book delves into the personal wealth and power of the men who actually wrote our constitution. Indeed, we live in a plutocracy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="804brown, post: 1114532, member: 29553"] You are correct. I quote from "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn: "Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful...They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits and political power from favorites of the British Empire. ...they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new privileged leadership...They created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times." In other words what occurred in the colonies was not so much a "revolution" where the masses on the bottom became the owners of society. No, it was more a rebellion by the colonists lead by the colonial elite to replace a british ruling elite with an american ruling elite. Also look up Charles Beard's "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the Unitesd States". He believed that the wealthy must in their own interest either control the government directly or at least control the laws by which govt operates. His book delves into the personal wealth and power of the men who actually wrote our constitution. Indeed, we live in a plutocracy. [/QUOTE]
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