Monarchy and the American Founding – Eric Nelson
Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In truth, Eric Nelson argues in The Royalist Revolution, the founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. That same position drove the granting of far more power to the US president than any British monarch had wielded for almost 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.
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