THE AMERICAN FOUNDING

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In at least one particular, the American Revolution bears comparison with the execution of Charles I and with Marlborough's great victory at the Battle of Blenheim. Like these two prior events, it occasioned a sea change in political thought by altering decisively the political world within which a particular group of exceptionally able men found themselves situated. As a consequence, it, too, marked an epoch in the reception of Machiavelli's republican ruminations.

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