Author: Richard L. Bushman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed to a single thinker such as John Locke or to a strain of political thought such as English country party rhetoric. Instead, it was the result of tensions ingrained in the colonial political system that surfaced with the invasion of parliamentary power into colonial affairs after 1763. The underlying weakness of monarchical government in Massachusetts was the absence of monarchical society -- the intricate web of patronage and dependence that existed in England. But the conflict came from the colonists' conception of rulers as an alien class of exploiters whose interest was the plundering of the colonies. In large part, colonial politics was the effort to restrain official avarice. The author explicates the meaning of "interest" in political discourse to show how that conception was central in the thinking of both the popular party and the British ministry. Management of the interest of royal officials was a problem that continually bedeviled both the colonists and the crown. Conflict was perennial because the colonists and the ministry pursued diverging objectives in regulating colonial officialdom. Ultimately the colonists came to see that safety against exploitation by self-interested rulers would be assured only by republican government.
King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
Author: Richard L. Bushman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed to a single thinker such as John Locke or to a strain of political thought such as English country party rhetoric. Instead, it was the result of tensions ingrained in the colonial political system that surfaced with the invasion of parliamentary power into colonial affairs after 1763. The underlying weakness of monarchical government in Massachusetts was the absence of monarchical society -- the intricate web of patronage and dependence that existed in England. But the conflict came from the colonists' conception of rulers as an alien class of exploiters whose interest was the plundering of the colonies. In large part, colonial politics was the effort to restrain official avarice. The author explicates the meaning of "interest" in political discourse to show how that conception was central in the thinking of both the popular party and the British ministry. Management of the interest of royal officials was a problem that continually bedeviled both the colonists and the crown. Conflict was perennial because the colonists and the ministry pursued diverging objectives in regulating colonial officialdom. Ultimately the colonists came to see that safety against exploitation by self-interested rulers would be assured only by republican government.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed to a single thinker such as John Locke or to a strain of political thought such as English country party rhetoric. Instead, it was the result of tensions ingrained in the colonial political system that surfaced with the invasion of parliamentary power into colonial affairs after 1763. The underlying weakness of monarchical government in Massachusetts was the absence of monarchical society -- the intricate web of patronage and dependence that existed in England. But the conflict came from the colonists' conception of rulers as an alien class of exploiters whose interest was the plundering of the colonies. In large part, colonial politics was the effort to restrain official avarice. The author explicates the meaning of "interest" in political discourse to show how that conception was central in the thinking of both the popular party and the British ministry. Management of the interest of royal officials was a problem that continually bedeviled both the colonists and the crown. Conflict was perennial because the colonists and the ministry pursued diverging objectives in regulating colonial officialdom. Ultimately the colonists came to see that safety against exploitation by self-interested rulers would be assured only by republican government.
To the People of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew)
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF MASSA
Author: Benjamin Robbins] 1809-1874 [Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781360116082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
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ISBN: 9781360116082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
People Before Highways
Author: Karilyn Crockett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625342966
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction -- People before highways: stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires: (re)defining progress -- Groundwork: imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow not yesterday: "we were wrong"--New territory--city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick: new dreams, new plans, new park
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ISBN: 9781625342966
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction -- People before highways: stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires: (re)defining progress -- Groundwork: imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow not yesterday: "we were wrong"--New territory--city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick: new dreams, new plans, new park
Letter to the People of Massachusetts
Author: Republican State Committee of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Discussions on the Constitution Proposed to the People of Massachusetts by the Convention of 1853
Author: Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A Proclamation to the People of Massachusetts ... November 18, 1863
Author: Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew)
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Address to the free and independent people of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts Citizens.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Massachusetts
Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts
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ISBN: 9780403021505
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9780403021505
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Massachusetts
Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 673
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 673
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