Section II The Radicalism of the American Revolution

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The word " republicanism" is a title used by Gordon S. Wood in the second section of his book The Radicalism of the American Revolution.  It is important to remember in eighteenth-century America that Wood's truncated society of social unequals did exist.  Social equality for the masses is a very distinctive argument that has origins in the enlightenment ideas of eighteenth-century American society.  Republicanism and its ties to enlightenment are certainly two values of the radical acceptance of the distinctly formative American Revolution. These two values should not be overlooked in a historical context.

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