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• [1] hjs from 11211 October 08, 2007 - 01:47PM

  any connection between english rev of the 17th century and the american rev in the 18th century

  
  
• [2] KCM from Old Lyme, CT October 08, 2007 - 08:18PM

  The Founding Fathers certainly looked back to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688-89 as a partial model. They borrowed some of the language and ideas of the (mainly Whig) revolutionaries. And the prime idea that came out of the "G-R" was the need to keep Parliament, and especially the House of Commons, in a position to control the King, rather than the other way around. James II was the poster boy for the abuses to which Establishment of religion could lead, among other evils, and the Americans' resentment and fear of an unchecked monarchy eventually led to the Constitutional checks on the Presidency which we seem to be so casually discarding today.