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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founding impulses of America were not original. They came from the Magna Carta, from the British Bill of Rights, from Locke and Montesquieu, from St. Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa ("Since all men are by nature free, then government rests on the consent of the governed") and a hundred other places. The young, exuberant colonies fused them into revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History's Shadow at Wiliiamsburg | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

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