アメリカの革命

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This treatise, in short, beings with a description of the tendency of unification of the American Colonists of the British Empire and considers finally American Revolutionary Theory involving the complicated cirumstances of following affairs: various Acts of the British Government toward the American colonies, corresponding committees and the first and second Continental Congresses in American against these Acts, British policy and stationary troops, the entanglement of courses and situations of these affairs during the war, the international aspects of the war, the American patriots final victory and America's independence from its mother country, the British Empire, and the social and political changes in America after the Revolutionary War.
The value of historical studies lies not in the knowledge of the past it gives. It lies rather in the insight which it furnishes into the future. This treatise, from this point of view, shows that American belief in natural right, liberty, separation of Church and State, republican form of government, etc. have their origins in the deep roots that grew up from the time of the Revolutionary War.
American political scholarship like American statesmanship has been primarily problem-conscious rather than metaphysical and doctrinaire. The American Revolution was not a revolution of any principles of original philosophy or creative ideology. That is to say, there was no political theory in America. One of the characteristics of the American people at that time was to deal with current situations rather than to think in terms of abstract ideas. The American Revolution was based on such reasoning. Then we may call it a conservative revolution which was different from the French, Russian and English revolutions.
From the first, the American people developed their new country with hunting knives in an effort to live. In this, the pioneer spirit was born. And that pioneer spirit has become the distinguishing trait of pragmatism from the time of the American Revolution up to the present day. This treaties is a discussion of these affairs.