Main events Samuel Adams had to do with prior
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I read a book by William Fowler, "Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan," I am supposed to write about how William Fowler used Samuel Adams to identify a number of themes prior to, during and after the American Revolution. I also need to know what those themes and and concepts considered, what the generalizations about the American Colonial and National society considered and some examples.
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The main events Samuel ADam had to do with prior American Revolution are given.
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The main theme in the life of Samuel Adams, I would argue, is his commitment to the republican ideal. He expressed this well in one of the numerous reports he wrote as a legislator for the commonwealth of Massachusetts (in a structure of municipalities called "The Committee of Correspondence") for the city of Boston prior to the American Revolution (online at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/adamss.html if you want to have a look at it - this particular report was written in 1772). The essence of the republican ideal is:
* That political liberty consists in not being dominated by
by a superior power ("The natural liberty of man is to be free
from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will
or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of
nature for his rule.")
* That the arbitrariness of power, therefore, is the key evil
to be resisted ("...The Legislative has no right to
absolute, arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the
people...")
* That liberty consists in the right to live independent of
the power of others as far as possible and have control over
one's means ("Among the natural rights of the Colonists are
these: First, a right ...
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