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The American Revolution - What You Wanted by the American Revolution
You argued that pragmatism did, to an extent, prevail in the american revolution. What we see is a group of people who see that this has to change and their demands to have a central government are radical. Notoriously, there was also a huge compromise - if a new country was to come into existence, it was going to have to allow slavery.
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