“It’s customary today to say that the American Revolution was really no revolution at all, in the sense that the French Revolution would be. That’s true; life in the new nation went along much as it always had, with the same patricians firmly in control. Still, it was a new nation, with a formal written constitution—something Britain has never had. “A great revolution has happened,†Burke wrote in a manuscript draft. “A revolution made not by chopping and changing of power in existing states, but by appearance of the new state among mankind, of a new species, in a new part of the earth. It has made as great a change in all the relations and balances and gravitations of power, as the appearance of a new planet would in the system of our solar world.†Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Location 5470). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Damrosch, Leo. The Club (Kindle Locations 5465-5470). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. ”
