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The Magna Carta in America

American History Hit

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The History of the American Revolution

It wasn't necessarily to break from the English crown. It was to defend themselves in the argument that the English crown was misunderstanding their relationship to the American colonies. That's all really the biggest thinkers were trying to do in 1774. But it ends up being an inflection point instead of something that brings them together.

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