... "elected" officials were out to destroy liberty. The oppositionists referred to themselves as the "country party." They were not, of course, the only ones who began questioning English government, however. English radicals such as Joseph Priestly and James Burgh collected ideas from Enlightenment and oppositionist authors and found that "at the heart of all political relationships raged a struggle between the aggressive extension of artificial power ... everywhere was bombarding the Americans with messages describing the "enslavement" of the colonies by Britain, as well as ancient Greek...

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