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other side, we're actually going to get to three sides pretty soon.

On the other side, much of the ideological grounding of the United States came not from direct Christian sources, but from a heritage of British descent that had arisen in the late 17th century when Parliament ousted King James II, called in William of Orange, and established a government where Parliament was going to be at least on a par with the king.

And in that era, those who were most ardent for reform were called the Whigs.

In America, the political ideology that had the greatest impact on the revolution was from people called the real Whigs, people who had gone further with the political developments of the late 17th century and over the course of the 18th century, emphasized things like absolute power corrupts, corruption leads to an absence of freedom, France, in the middle of the 18th century, was the avatar of tyranny, Catholicism, the scorn of the Bible.

But when Parliament began to impose taxes, restrict the slave trade of the colonists in the 1760s, all of a sudden, the real Whig ideology thwarted.

fueled colonists to think, no, it's not France that's the major problem, it's Britain itself.

What does Mark Knoll think of it?