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Parent topics
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
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- American Revolution [r]: (1763-1789) war that resulted in the formation of the U.S., in which 13 North American colonies overthrew British rule. [e]
- Roots of American conservatism [r]: Those formative events that led to the modern American conservative movement [e]
- Russell Kirk [r]: (1918–1994) American conservative political theorist; wrote The Conservative Mind (1953), helping to spark a conservative revival. [e]
- French Revolution [r]: The revolutionary episode in France that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands were killed or driven into exile. [e]
- Glorious Revolution [r]: (1688 - 89) Largely bloodless events which deposed King James VII and II (of Scotland and England), brought William and Mary to the thrones and established the monarchy on a contract basis. [e]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Paine [r]: (1737-1809) English writer, intellectual and revolutionary whose works were influential during the Enlightenment in the United States and Europe. [e]
- Whig Party, Britain [r]: Member of an 18th- and 19th-century British political party that was opposed to the Tories, originally a Scottish Presbyterian opponent of Anglican government. [e]