To: marcos who wrote (161674 ) 5/10/2005 8:10:51 AM From: jttmab Read Replies (1) | Respond to Thanks for writing that up. Very interesting stuff.A lot of the 'rights of man' political philosophy stuff that forms US rhetoric regarding those days was actually shared by many british whigs ... in fact, there were far more whigs in the UK than in the colonies, there were liberal thinkers all over Europe, not too many years later the name Liberales would first be applied to anti-imperialists in Spain ... this is not generally recognised in the US, where Liberty is seen as made-in-the-USA with no imported parts, no Magna Carta, no old saxon assemblies, no tradition of rights of the english yeoman ... at least, that's the impression gained from Hollywood and most internet threads.
