A bit of a history lesson from Dan Hannan, who lends his Oxford-educated perspective to the Tea Parties: the one in Boston in 1773, the movement that has arisen here in the past year, and the one just underway back in Great Britain.
The American Revolution, in other words, was inspired by British political philosophy and – more to the point – by British political practice. American patriots saw themselves as part of a continuing British tradition, stretching back through the Glorious Revolution, back through the agitations of Pym and Hampden, back even through the Great Charter to the folkright of Anglo-Saxon common law.
We here owe so much to those who risked everything for freedom, the ones who stayed behind when our ancestors debarked for America.
Three cheers, if distant and delayed.
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