Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. - Bernard Bailyn

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Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

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About Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn (September 9, 1922 – 7 August 2020), was an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard from 1953 and won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice, in 1968 and 1987.

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Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first in the form of denunciations of standing armies in the reign of William III, left an indelible imprint on the "country" mind everywhere in the English-speaking world.
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