![]() "Commonwealth" or "real Whig" English writers were profoundly suspicious of all political power and the people who wielded it. One source, especially among New England intellectuals, was the heritage of Puritanism, which had overturned the monarchy, beheaded King Charles I, and abolished the House of Lords. ![]() But colonial radicalism also drew on presumptions that a great deal was wrong with the world as it was. colonial tensionsīroadly speaking, pre-independence radicalism was "conservative," seeking to turn back changes that Britain sought to impose. It also can describe the various visions people formed of the new America that the Revolution made possible. The word radical can apply equally well to deep criticism of both the British-American social order and British policies during the pre-Revolutionary crisis. Within the American Revolution there was no single radical position from beginning to end. Politically it means addressing matters from their roots. ![]() "Radical" stems from the Latin radix, root. ![]()
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