2016
DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2016.1198080
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‘Barons’ Wars, under Other Names’: Feudalism, Royalism and the American Founding

Abstract: SummaryThe Machiavellian Moment was largely responsible for establishing what remains the dominant understanding of American Revolutionary ideology. Patriots, on this account, were radical whigs; their great preoccupation was a terror of crown power and executive corruption. This essay proposes to test the whig reading of patriot political thought in a manner suggested by Professor Pocock's pioneering first book, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law. The whig tradition, as he taught us, located in the r… Show more

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