1. Richard Henry Lee
... posed was to defeat all forces of selfishness and corruption, a task that the government would, therefore, be established for. In the late 1770s Lee "urged that a rapid transition from extra-legal revolutionary government to established, regular institutions was essential for the repression of "popular commotions" and ... planter form Virginia, advised the colonists to establish independence but also to determine a ruling class. In response to his support for aristocratic society, Lee called his advice "contemptible." (Leder, 133) To him, leaving power to aristocracies was too much a ri...
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