A Short-lived American Democracy is the fifth video in our America 250: A Revolutionary Perspective series. The U.S. Constitution did not resolve the Declaration’s grievances once independence was won. What happened to the “Right of Revolution” in state constitutions, and what does it mean today?
Continuing CELDF’s America 250: A Revolutionary Perspective series, CELDF’s Executive Director Kai Huschke and Education Director Ben Price discuss the disconnect between the aspirations of revolutionary American colonists who demanded freedom from top-down governance and what they did to try to realize those goals before the Federalist counter-revolution.
Hushke and Price find close comparisons between Declaration’s grievances justifying secession from the British empire and today’s failures of governance. 250 years ago, the British policies toward its colonies gave deference to privileged persons, living and corporate, over settler subjects of the empire. The anti-corporate stance of the American rebels will seem very familiar to Americans living now, 250 years later.
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