interesting, but permit me to observe: while charters 'were not just concessions from a benevolent Crown', as Prof Gross notes, they manifested the monarchical constitution; the Crown's ('unconstitutional') proclamation of rebellion placed Mass &c in a state of nature that required remedy
Larry GlickmanThe great historian Robert A. Gross, author of the prize-winning, The Minutemen and Their World, has written a historically-informed, nuanced rejoinder to J.D. Vance’s use of U.S. history as a tool of blood-and-soil nationalism. theamericanscholar.org/gratitude-is...