The American revolutionaries broke their social compact with England only after a “long train of abuses and usurpations” made evident “a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism.” ..…

Years ago, back in the early 1980s, I had conservative friend England. I tried to explain why American conservatives did not see it that way, of view, with Labour Party committed then to disarmament to Soviet Union and full socialism at home, it made some rough sense. ..…