At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.