In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution , there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.