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The royalist revolution

by Eric Nelson

Constitutional historyPolitics and governmentMonarchyPolitical scienceHistoryPolitical science, united statesConstitutional history, united statesUnited states, politics and government, to 1775

The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.

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