How Americans justify revolutions [Archives:2004/700/Letters to the Editor]
January 5 2004
Jane Novak
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In order to justify the American Revolution, the US founding fathers disputed the divine right of the British crown to rule and instead postulated that legitimacy and divinity is inherent in the populace, rather than the government.
This may be a particularly Western construct.
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