(09-18-2024, 11:46 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(09-18-2024, 11:31 AM)mikesez Wrote: The American Revolution started out, well before 1776, as the colonial legislatures fighting to be equal to British Parliament.  The only reason it became an effort to get rid of the King was the King openly decided to side with British Parliament in that battle and actually tried to prevent colonial legislatures from meeting.  For a while the colonists thought that might be fine as long as they got to vote in members of British Parliament, but it became clear that they would not be allowed to do so.

After the colonists won they set up a centralized government, begrudgingly, that had most of the powers that Parliament was asserting.

The American revolution was sort of about central vs local. But it was more about elected vs unelected.  And that's what the King has in common with Putin, Xi, and Maduro.  None of those guys will step down if the people want someone else to lead.  None of them are really elected by the people.

LOL, multiple people multiple reasons. Not one.  After it was formed the big issue was State's Rights vs Federal. These are defined in the constitution and Bill of Rights.  It was the first bone of contention between Alexander Hamilton and Arron Burr.  You do know how that eventually turned out right? Maybe not, history doesn't seem to be your strong suit.

Burr shot Hamilton and his reputation was ruined. Hamilton's Federalist party had fallen apart by that point.  Even so, President Jefferson was unable to get rid of the first Bank of the United States.  The charter expired in 1811, but the Democrats set up a new one in 1816 that ran until 1841. So most of the pre civil war years had no national bank and little federal influence on the economy.  You have a point, but the over-arching point is the colonists wanted influence over their government that the London Parliament would not yield to any of them.

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