![]() ![]() Each lists ‘abuses and usurpations’ adding up to a tyrannical plot.” In each, a narrative of self-defense against enslavement is built from fragmentary evidence. “The tone, language, and form are consistent. Rosenblum in A Lot of People Are Saying : The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, a new book from Princeton University Press. ![]() “Historians have uncovered nearly one hundred resolutions urging independence issued throughout 1776 by states and counties and towns, artisan and militia associations, and the provincial congresses of nine colonies,” write Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. In the turbulent run-up to and aftermath of the Declaration of Independence, the word on the streets - and in the pamphlets - of the colonies was not that the Crown had instituted bad or unfair policies, but rather that everything was part of a master plan to enslave the States, full stop. Maybe Americans are obsessed with conspiracy theories because our nation itself was forged in one. ![]()
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